Brazil passes 100,000 coronavirus deaths as outbreak shows no sign of easing

Relatives react as the daughter of Maria Joana Nascimento, 65, who died of suspected coronavirus disease (COVID-19) after she had difficulty breathing, cries at Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo.

A projection on a building honours the 100,000 victims who died of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in Brazil as the country became the second in the world to pass the grim milestone, in Botafogo neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro. Just a day after Latin America and the Caribbean became the hardest-hit region in the global pandemic, Brazil reported a total of 100,477 fatalities, joining the United States as the only two countries to surpass the six-digit death mark.

Gravediggers prepare new graves to be used at Vila Formosa cemetery amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sao Paulo. Brazil surpassed 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday as cases exceeded 3 million, according to the latest numbers by the country's Health Ministry. The fatalities milestone comes less than five months after Brazil recorded its first COVID-19 related death.

People hold crosses as a tribute to COVID-19 victims and as a protest against the way Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is handling the pandemic, in front of the World War II Brazilian Veterans monument in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nurse Isabelli Guasso administers China's Sinovac vaccine, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to volunteer and nurse Fabiana Souza, at the Sao Lucas Hospital of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

A demonstrator with a Brazilian flag seen beside crosses during a tribute to COVID-19 victims organized by the Rio de Paz NGO at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Brazilian Marcio Antonio do Nascimento (R) and Lucas Cruz, respectively father and brother of 25-year-old Hugo do Nascimento, who died from the new coronavirus, hold a Brazilian flag as a thousand red balloons are released, during a tribute to COVID-19 victims organized by the Rio de Paz NGO at the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Demonstrators hold bundles of red balloons to be released in honour of the victims of COVID-19 in an event organized by Rio de Paz, on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as the country headed to a milestone of 100,000 new coronavirus related deaths.

A woman runs past crosses and balloons placed by members of the NGO Rio de Paz in tribute to the one hundred thousand mortal victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country, at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.