The country’s P1 variant is believed to be 150 times more contagious than the original virus. Video / News.comThe country’s P1 variant is believed to be 150 times more contagious than the original virus. Now, 12 months on, pictures from Viana's cemetery show graves are being dug in streets because there are no remaining plots to bury the dead. Experts blame the latest surge partly on the "Brazil variant" of the virus, a mutation that emerged in or around the city of Manaus in December. About 28 million people in Brazil have received a first Covid-19 vaccine dose, just over 13 per cent of the population.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 30, 2021 21:56 UTC