A kid looks on as a municipal healthcare worker walks after examining the body of Shirlene Morais Costa, who died at home at the age of 53 after reporting symptoms consistent with COVID-19, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Manaus, Brazil, January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
MANAUS (Reuters) - Shirlene Morais Costa died at her home in the northern Brazilian city of Manaus on Monday, likely the latest victim of a devastating new wave of COVID-19 that has returned to this isolated city deep in the Amazon rainforest.
The 53-year-old went to hospital with a cough and a fever, both symptoms of the coronavirus, but was sent home, according to her stepfather, Esteliano Lopes Filho, 74.
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