Mass graves being dug and long queues forming at banks as Brazil’s Covid-19 crisis deepens

Coronavirus victims in Brazil are being buried in mass graves at the Taruma cemetery in the northern city of Manaus as the Covid-19 pandemic worsens in the country.  On April 28, 2020, Brazil’s death toll has surpassed the figure reported in China. As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed the outbreak and called for people to resume their lives to prevent an economic meltdown, the poor in Brazil are risking deadly Covid-19 infections to line up outside banks to collect emergency…