A man's body was left on the street for 30 hours as Brazil struggles with its soaring coronavirus death toll.
More than 20,000 have now died with the disease in the South American nation, and it is seeing 10,000 new cases on average each day.
The family of Valnir da Silva, 62, say he was a victim of the coronavirus pandemic in Rio de Janeiro.
His body was found sandwiched between a row of parked cars and a small football pitch, as locals continued to play the game next to his corpse.
Mr da Silva suffered breathing difficulties and collapsed suddenly, according to witnesses at a nearby bar.
Paramedics rushed to the scene but were unable to save the dad.
Ambulance workers left the body on the street and council staff said it was not their responsibility to remove corpses.
The man's stepson Marcos Vinicius Andrade da Silva, 26, says he contacted patrolling police officers the next day who also refused to remove the body.
It took some 30 hours before a funeral team was finally arranged to remove Mr da Silva's body which left his family "very sad about what happened".
He was later buried at a ceremony with just four people, including Marcos and his mother, in attendance.
The death certificate reads that he died of cardiac arrest, though his family claim this was a complication of coronavirus.
President Jair Bolsonaro has increased the use of a controversial and unproven malaria drug to treat patients in Brazil.
The new regulations mean it can be given to people with lesser symptoms such as abdominal pain, cough or fever, according to the Health Ministry.
'There is still no scientific evidence, but it is being monitored and used in Brazil and worldwide,' Mr Bolsonaro, who has likened the virus to a 'little flu' and feuded with local governments over their stay-at-home measures, said via his official Facebook page.
