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Brazilians in Australia fear returning to country where spread of COVID-19 remains uncontrolled
“People were in the aisles, on the floor with no beds, no masks,” Ary Neto says, describing what’s become of the hospitals in his home town in Brazil, which is still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key points:
- Brazil records around a quarter of the world’s daily coronavirus deaths
- Virologists discovered a more deadly COVID-19 variant in the city of Manaus in December
- The strain has since spread across the country largely due to open borders between states
Mr Neto lives in Melbourne – nearly 15,000 kilometres away from his family who are based near the city of Manaus, in Brazil’s Amazon region.
Since the coronavirus pandemic began, he’s lost three close family members, including his 60-year-old mother Rosemay Oran Barros…
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