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Sao Paulo exhumes old graves to make space for surging COVID… – Thomson Reuters Foundation
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BRAZIL (PIX, TV):Sao Paulo exhumes old graves to make space for surging COVID-19 burials
(Adds Bolsonaro vaccine comment in paragraph 10)
By Eduardo Simões and Amanda Perobelli
SAO PAULO, April 1 (Reuters) – Brazil’s biggest city on Thursday sped up efforts to empty old graves, making room for a soaring number of COVID-19 deaths as Sao Paulo city hall registered record daily burials this week.
Gravediggers in the Vila Nova Cachoeirinha cemetery in the city’s northern reaches worked in white hazmat suits to open the tombs of people buried years ago, bagging decomposed remains for removal…
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