RELATED: Russia's race for coronavirus vaccine raises concerns in the WestIn a tribute to COVID-19 victims Saturday morning, the non-governmental group Rio de Paz placed crosses on the sand on the famed Copacabana beach and released 1,000 red balloons into the sky.“It’s very sad.
Those 100,000 represent various families, friends, parents, children”, said Marcio do Nascimento Silva, a 56-year-old taxi driver who lost his children in the pandemic and joined the tribute.Advertisement"We reach that mark (100,000) and many people seem to not see it, both among the government and our people.
They are not just numbers but people. Death became normal ”, Silva said.President Jair Bolsonaro — who himself reported being infected — has been a.