This file photograph taken on June 2, 2020 shows a grave digger at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in the neighbourhood of Taruma, in Manaus, Brazil, whereCovid-19 victims are buried daily.
With the second-highest death toll in the pandemic after the United States, Brazil has been devastated by the new coronavirus, which has now claimed 130,396 lives in the country, according to the health ministry.
The virus has proved devastating for some of Brazil's most vulnerable groups, notably residents of impoverished favelas, or slums, and indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest.
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil's death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 130,000 Friday, amid cautious optimism over signs the virus is finally slowing in the hard-hit South American country.
