Coronavirus in Brazil: in Manaus there are no more tubes of …

Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, suffered another hospital collapse due to the pandemic on Thursday after oxygen tubes ran out. The saturation of hospitals has forced more than 750 Covid-19 patients to be referred to other states in military planes and to declare a city-wide curfew.

With this panorama, to which is added a death toll and a lack of cold rooms to keep the corpses, the governor of the state of Amazonas, Wilson Lima, decreed a curfew between 7 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the largest Amazon jungle town. South American. “We are facing something unprecedented, the worst peak of the pandemic,” Lima added at a press conference.

The scenes observed in the medical centers of the Brazilian city are even more terrible than during the first wave of infections: nurses, doctors and family members scream over lack of oxygen tubes at the door of public hospitals. A parallel market has also started in which fortunes are demanded for blood oxygenation devices.

The armed forces sent 356 oxygen cylinders overnight, but logistics were unable to respond to the emergency for Covid-19 patients. “There are reports that an entire wing of patients has died for lack of air tubes. In addition to the deaths, the risk of generating permanent brain problems is high,” said Jesem Orellana, a scientist at the laboratory. Federal Fiocruz Amazonia.

For his part, President Jair Bolsonaro complained of having been questioned about the use, in Manaus, of the so-called Covid kit recommended by the government, which includes the taking of hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial he had himself. even made by the military and imported from the United States. , although it has no scientific proof. It should be noted that the far-right president said he and his whole government took it and that Bolonarianism called this “early treatment”.