Lack of oxygen to treat patients in Manaus

Manaus is a city of 2 million people and the seventh-largest city in Brazil. With more than 1,500 people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the city currently, and thousands more infected, it is currently one of the world’s COVID-19 hotspots. With hospitalizations breaking records, health facilities have been left without oxygen. On 15 January, international media reported that the Brazilian air force made an emergency delivery of oxygen to the city, however this is not sufficient to stem the crisis. The state is being forced to send patients to other states. Cemeteries are full with hours extended for the burial of the bodies. To try and stem the propagation of the virus, the state government decided to ban the circulation of people between 7 pm and 6 am in Manaus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, around 6.000 have died in the State of Amazonas, most of them in the capital city Manaus.