Brazil’s count of COVID-19 deaths surpassed 150,000 on Saturday night, despite signs the pandemic is slowly retreating in Latin America’s largest nation.The Brazilian Health Ministry reported that the death toll now stands at 150,198.
The figure is the world’s second highest behind the United States, according to the tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University.The milestone has rekindled the pain of Naiane Moura, a sales consultant, who lost her father Elivaldo to COVID-19 in April.
The 58-year-old postman had no prior illness and battled COVID-19 for seven days in a public hospital in Manaus, Brazil’s largest city in the Amazon.“When I see 150,000, I see my father alongside many other faceless bodies,” Moura said by phone. “I didn’t.