Corpse lies on the street in Rio for more than 30 hours while kids play football yards away as Brazil becomes South America's coronavirus epicentre with more than 20,000 deaths
A dead man's body lay on the
streets of Rio for 30 hours amid Brazil's soaring coronavirus death
toll that has reached more than 20,000.
The family of Valnir da Silva,
62, say he was a victim of the coronavirus pandemic that is tearing its
way through Rio's marginalised communities, stretching public services
beyond their limits.
His body was discovered
sandwiched between a row of parked cars and a small football pitch, as
locals continued to play the game next to his corpse.
The country has become South
America's epicentre of the killer bug as it hurtles towards its peak, at
the same time as the government loosens rules allowing for the
increased use of a controversial and unproven malaria drug to treat
patients.
The body of Valnir Mendes da
Silva, 62, lies on a sidewalk marked with traffic cones in the Arara
slum where he died after experiencing breathing difficulties, while a
football game plays on to his right
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