Coronavirus parties highlight Brazil's fractured approach to pandemic [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

A doctor was savagely beaten when she objected to one of the many shindigs taking place in defiance of health experts’ advice

Caio Barretto Briso and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 9 Jun 2020 07.42 EDT



For weeks, the booze-soaked, coronavirus-themed parties had raged over the road from Ticyana Azambuja’s home in Rio de Janeiro, until finally she snapped.

She picked up a hammer, marched across the street and used it to smash the rear windshield and Union Jack-patterned wing mirror of a reveller’s car.

“I just wanted them to come out and listen to me. I’d pay to fix the car, but they needed to understand how ridiculous it was to be throwing those parties day and night … right in the middle of a pandemic,” the 35-year-old said.

Azambuja’s moment of fury was understandable, if illegal: an anaesthetist, she has spent the last three months battling to save lives on the frontline of Brazil’s fight against Covid-19 – even catching the disease herself.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/brazil-coronavirus-parties

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