Coronavirus parties highlight Brazil’s fractured approach to pandemic

By Caio Barretto Briso and Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

A doctor was savagely beaten when she objected to one of the many shindigs taking place in defiance of health experts’ advice

For weeks, the booze-soaked, coronavirus-themed parties had raged over the road from Ticyana Azambuja’s home in Rio de Janeiro, until finally she snapped.

She picked up a hammer, marched across the street and used it to smash the rear windshield and Union Jack-patterned wing mirror of a reveller’s car.

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