Bolsonaro won't help with coronavirus, so Brazil's favelas are helping themselves

Bolsonaro won't help with coronavirus, so Brazil's favelas are helping themselves

Brazil’s President Bolsonaro has described coronavirus as a “little flu” and resisted lockdown measures even as the death toll rises.

But in Rio’s poorest favelas, where people live in overcrowded conditions and lack proper sanitation, they are bracing for the worst.

Buba Aguiar is an activist in Acari who is taking matters into her own hands, soliciting online donations to buy food parcels and basic coronavirus kit - soap, masks - for her neighbours who cannot afford to stop working and stay at home.

As Acari records its first coronavirus death, we follow Buba through a typical day fighting to help her community in the face of government inaction.