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Subdued Brazil New Year celebrations met with silence in Covid-19 ward

Medical personnel stand in a minute of silence for the victims of Covid-19 as they work during the New Year at a field hospital set up at a sports gym in Santo Andre, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, January 1, 2021. [Reuters]

Brazilians saw in 2021 with fireworks under unusual social distancing measures, while in a hospital intensive care ward outside Sao Paulo, doctors tending Covid-19 patients held one minute of silence for the passing of a deadly year.

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