Aerial view of the graves of Covid-19 victims at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus, Amazon State, Brazil, on April 15, 2021. (MICHAEL DANTAS/AFP via Getty Images)
Clergy hit hard, especially Deacons
By Eduardo Campos Lima
-- São Paulo -- Covid-19 has claimed more than 3,000 lives per day on average over the past week, the most by far worldwide. The country of 212 million has lost more than 365,000 people to the disease, putting Brazil behind only the United States in total numbers of confirmed deaths.














