Ricardo Vieira, a surgeon, attends a resident of Paraisópolis on April 7, 2020 in São Paulo. Doctors and nurses were hired by "G10 Favelas," a group formed by the ten richest communities in Brazil, to go door-to-door and visit patients in Paraisópolis, the second largest favela in São Paulo. #

Nurses lie on the ground to commemorate colleagues who died in their fight against the new coronavirus pandemic, during a protest marking International Nurses Day, in Brasilia on May 12, 2020. #

Carmen, a worker from the Vila Isabel samba school, makes medical scrubs, during the pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, on April 7, 2020. Samba schools that usually spend all year making Carnival costumes have started using their sewing machines for a different purpose, making scrubs and face masks for medical workers. #

Dieree Katura Porto, a nursing technician, poses for a picture at a field hospital set up at a gym, to treat patients suffering from COVID-19 in Santo Andre, São Paulo state, on May 6, 2020. #

Rio de Janeiro's "Christ the Redeemer" statue is lit up in the likeness of a doctor and with the word "thanks" projected in Portuguese, above Rio de Janeiro, on April 12, 2020. #

A graduate from the medical and nursing school of Faseh University celebrates from a car after receiving a diploma during a drive-through ceremony, set up to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, on April 30, 2020, in Vespasiano. #

The Catholic priest Jonathan Costa prays among photos of the faithful, attached on his church's benches before a Mass, which will be live-streamed at the Santuario Dom Bosco church in Brasilia, on April 9, 2020. #

Technicians at the General Motors factory repair ventilators from public hospitals amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 22, 2020, in Gravatai. At least 25 employees are working in two shifts, seven days a week, to carry out maintenance and return the ventilators ready for use in Brazilian hospitals. #

Elielson Silva, a firefighter, plays his trumpet from the top of a ladder for residents cooped up at home during a lockdown in Rio de Janeiro on April 5, 2020. He played in several of the city's neighborhoods, with Brazil’s national anthem and “Hallelujah" as his two final songs. #

Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, 32, is a nurse from the Witoto tribe, an indigenous ethnic group. She has volunteered to provide the only frontline care protecting her indigenous community of 700 families from the coronavirus outbreak. Here, she wears a face mask that reads "indigenous lives matter" as she puts on personal protective equipment, before leaving her home in Parque das Trios, in the Taruma district of Manaus, on April 26, 2020. "Our people are dying from this disease here and they are not being recognized as indigenous people by the state and Sesai," Santos said. #

Vanderlecia Ortega dos Santos, a Witoto nursing assistant, takes care of a patient during a healthcare visit in the Parque das Tribos, an indigenous community in the suburbs of Manaus, Amazonas state, on May 3, 2020. #

Residents of Paraisópolis attend a ceremony on a soccer field after getting basic training from health-care workers on how to stay safe during the pandemic in their community in São Paulo on May 6, 2020. #

A health worker, wearing personal protective gear, transports the body of a person to a refrigerated truck during the coronavirus outbreak, at the Dr. Joao Lucio Pereira Machado hospital in Manaus, on April 17, 2020. #

Cemetery workers place coffins in a common grave during a funeral at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery in Manaus on May 11, 2020. A new section of the cemetery was opened last month to cope with the surge in deaths. #

Paulo Alexandre Pereira dos Santos shows a picture of his father, Manuel Francisco dos Santos, who died from COVID-19, as its spread continues in São Paulo on April 29, 2020. #

A physiotherapist from FamilyCare, a group that specializes in providing mobile physiotherapy care, applies a Brazilian physiotherapy method called RTA (Re-balancing Thoracic Abdominal) while attending to a COVID-19 patient at home in Rio de Janeiro on May 8, 2020. #

A combination picture shows the following ICU nursing assistants, before and after putting on their face masks: Regina Aparecida Oliveira, Priscila de Lima Luiz, Roberto Carlos Santos Silva, Emanoela Aparecida F. Santos, Francisco Jose da Silva, and Andressa Silva. They posed at a field hospital set up to treat patients suffering from COVID-19 in Guarulhos, São Paulo state, on May 12, 2020. #

Ermando Armelino Piveta, a 99-year-old former World War II combatant, gestures as he leaves the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia, after being treated for COVID-19 and discharged, on April 14, 2020. #