On Wednesday, Brazil recorded 3,950 coronavirus deaths in what was the worst day of the pandemic so far. It rounded off a horrific month of March, which obliterated any previous records by adding almost 67,000 Covid-19 fatalities to the overall national tally. Casualties have been picking up for the past four months, and sources within the Health Ministry expect the situation to get even worse in April. The catastrophe has caused health networks around the country to collapse, with patients left to die without hospital treatment.
There are shortages of intensive care beds, medical oxygen, and drugs used to intubate severe coronavirus patients. Predictably, the next sectors to feel the pinch are cemeteries and funeral homes.
This week, the Vila Nova Cachoeirinha cemetery in the city of São Paulo ran out of space and stopped digging new graves. Administrators will now exhume the remains of deceased citizens in order to make room for new burials. Funerals have been suspended city-wide.
On March 17, the Brazilian Association of Funeral Directors (Abredif) issued a...
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