Brazil: 500 red roses adorn Copacabana beach to honour country’s 500,000 COVID victims

Subscribe to our channel! Activists from Rio de Paz NGO made an installation with 500 red roses on the sand of Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, in tribute to 500,000 Brazilians who died with COVID-19. *MORE TO FOLLOW* SOUNDBITES: SOT, Antonio Carlos Costa, President of Rio de Paz (Portuguese): “500 roses that represent the 500,000 Brazilian who died of COVID 19. Families grieving, most of population living with fear due to the virus.“ *LOOSE TRANSLATION* SOT, Antonio Carlos Costa, President of Rio de Paz (Portuguese): “Since the beginning of the pandemic, its lethal power was minimized by the president who encouraged people to ignore sanitary measures dictated by epidemiologists of the whole world.“ *LOOSE TRANSLATION* SOT, Ricardo Teixeira, Local resident (Portuguese): “It’s important to try to bring awareness to people in all ways possible. Popular protests are important to make people that still resist