Brazil on Thursday passed 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, only the second country to do so after the US.

On Thursday Brazil registered 3,001 new COVID-19 deaths, taking its total since the pandemic began to 401,186 fatalities, agencies reported.

Video filmed on April 29 shows the empty streets of Sao Paulo, memorials to COVID-19 victims, a Sao Paulo crematorium and interviews in Portuguese with locals.

Experts blame the death toll on the failure of national and local governments to launch an adequate response to the pandemic.

This footage was filmed and produced 29 April 2021.

Brazil has surpassed the 400,000 dead mark by COVID-19, with a still high level of daily deaths and increasing mobility rates, which, for specialists, increases the risk of the country having a third wave of the pandemic before reaching the herd immunity by vaccination. With the record of 1,678 new records of deaths from Wednesday until 1 pm Thursday, the 29th, the country has already accumulated 400,021 victims of the disease.

The video shows the empty streets of Sao Paulo, memorials to the people who died from COVID-19, footage of the Sao Paulo crematorium, as well as some interviews with people on the street.