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Activists use COVID relief supplies to mark enormous death toll in Brazil
As Brazil flies past the tragic milestone of four hundred thousand deaths by Covid-19, Greenpeace Brazil activists are paying homage and pledging solidarity with the victims of the pandemic and their families. Activists used a 14-metre high and 92 metre-long message that spelled out, “400 thousand lives” (in Portuguese) on a floating raft at the Meeting of Waters – the junction between the Rivers Negro and Solimões, in Manaus. Greenpeace Brazil used almost 18 tonnes of food, masks, hygiene supplies and oxygen cylinders for the message, supplies that will be donated to humanitarian organisations in the Manaus region.