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Arequipa, Peru - 26 June 2021
1. Wide of vast and crowded hillside El Angel cemetery in Arequipa at the foot of Misti volcano
2. Family members and loved ones carrying the coffin of Javier Vilca, deceased by suicide while ill with COVID-19, through vast cemetery towards burial site
3. Family members and loved ones struggling to lower coffin into burial site
4. Family members and loved ones throwing earth into burial site covering over coffin of Javier Vilca - music rings out
5. Panoramic shot of central square 'Plaza de las Armas' in Arequipa as small number of people circulate. Peru flag flies at half mast
6. Medics moving patient, with oxygen tank, through ward of Honorio Delgado Hospital towards Intensive Care Unit
7. Nurse in COVID-19 ward covering a deceased patient with blanket
8. Family member of dead person looks on as nurse accompanied by medics wearing hazmat suits covering and taping deceased in black plastic bag
9. Medics taping deceased in black plastic bag
10. Nohemí Huanacchire, wife of late Javier Vilca - deceased by suicide while ill with COVID-19 - showing cellphone screen with image of her late husband
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nohemí Huanacchire, wife of late Javier Vilca:
"My husband was a good man who loved our daughters. And he didn't do that. He was not suicidal. He only wanted to scare (them) to call for attention (of the medical staff). He would tell me, 'they have us unattended every day; they ignore us.'"
12. Various of bodies stored and covered in plastic bags
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13. Body of a COVID-19 victim being placed on a pyre
14. A family member performing rituals
15. A burning pyre
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New Delhi, India -29 June 2021
16. Mohammed Shamim, supervisor at a Muslim cemetery in New Delhi waking towards the camera, a signboard marking the place for burials of people dying due to COVID-19
Tombstones on the graves
17. SOUNDBITE (Hindi) Mohammed Shamim, supervisor Muslim Cemetery:
"The most noticeable thing this time (during the second wave) we noticed is that people have become very scared even from their very own (family), as if humanity has kind of shunned them. People were scared to go near the dead bodies of their family members. Last time (during the first wave), it wasn't much but this time (during the second wave) the fear has increased. During the last time during the peak we used to get 7-8 dead bodies in a day but this time (during the second wave) we were getting 15-16 bodies in a day."
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New Delhi, India - 2 July 2021
18 . Various of vaccinations
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19 . Various interior shots healthcare workers attending to COVID-19 positive patients
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20. Various street scenes with people wearing face masks
STORYLINE:
El número de personas que han perdido la vida a causa del coronavirus en el mundo ha sobrepasado los 4 millones, conforme aumenta la propagación de la muy contagiosa variante delta.
En Latinoamérica, donde solamente 1 de cada 10 personas ha recibido una vacuna contra el virus, Perú ha sido uno de los países más afectados; el país tiene la tasa de mortalidad más alta del mundo
Hace poco en la ciudad de Arequipa, el periodista José Vilca se convirtió en un caso más que muestra la desesperación que ha causado la pandemia.
Vilca era un paciente con COVID-19; él había padecido depresión, y el 24 de junio, murió luego de saltar desde un cuarto piso en el hospital donde lo estaban atendiendo.
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