Brazil
People attend a funeral at a mass grave at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, 23 April 2020. The new section of the cemetery was opened amid a sharp rise in Covid-19 victims - Shutterstock
Bodies on the streets and presidents in denial
Bodies pile up in the city of Manaus, northern Brazil, as the town is brought to its knees by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The local health system collapsed over two weeks ago, while gravediggers resorted to burying the dead in mass graves known as "trenches."
A shortage of gravediggers forced one family to bury their father themselves, after spending three days searching for his body among the heaps of corpses.
"There were lots of bodies on top of each other, without any identification", said one man, speaking to the local press.
Brazil is fast becoming the new epicentre of the Covid-19 crisis in Latin America, with the daily death toll now beginning to outstrip some of the worst affected countries in Europe.
Ecuador dominated the headlines in April, where the disease has spread uncontrolled and bodies have been left to rot in the streets, and many fear Brazil is on a similar path.