Emergency oxygen supplies are being flown into a part of Brazil devastated by a rampant new strain of coronavirus. Patients have been left suffocating in hospitals as oxygen runs low in Manaus, the capital city of Amazonas, after the new Covid variant in Brazil resulted in a huge surge in patients.
The worrying new variant of Covid, that prompted Boris Johnson to ban travel from South America, is thought to have originated in Amazonas.
And the horrific scenes in Brazil make that decision easy to understand, as the UK battles with its own new variant of the disease.
Desperate relatives, protesting outside hospitals in the state capital of Manaus, said patients had been taken off ventilators as oxygen ran out.