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More than 50,000 people have now died from Covid-19 in Brazil, second only to the US. Seven members of Douglas Sterzza Dias’s family got the virus.

“The central nucleus of my family was completely destroyed,” says trainee surgeon Douglas at his flat in central São Paulo. His mother and uncle passed away in the hospital where he works. His grandmother also died. Douglas was the only one to attend his mother’s funeral - the rest of the family was quarantined.

“I did it all. Just me - me and myself. It’s the worst thing ever because you have nobody to cry with you, nobody to give a hug.”