When his anger reached its peak, Azambuja carried a hammer, crossed the street, and smashed the windshield and rearview mirror of a car full of people partying inside.

`I just want them to come out and listen to me. I paid for the car repair, but they need to understand how ridiculous it is to party like that all day and night, in the middle of a pandemic,` the 35-year-old female doctor said.

Azambuja broke bones in his knee, neck and hand.

One can understand why Azambuja was angry.

On May 30, the day she lost her temper, Azambuja was trying to rest after a grueling 24-hour shift at one of the three hospitals where she worked.

`They came out to kill me,` Azambuja said, recounting the brutal assault she experienced.

As her neighbors rushed her to the emergency room, her attackers continued to casually party.

`I face death every day. I don’t understand why these people find ways to have fun while so many people are dying,` Azambuja said.

Covid-19 appeared in 213 countries and territories, infected more than 7.3 million people, and killed more than 412,000 people.

Azambuja’s case shows Brazilians’ subjective attitude towards the pandemic.

In Rio, where more than 6,000 people died, the anti-crime hotline Disque Denúncia received more than 700 calls reporting `underground parties` since the pandemic broke out, despite the ban on gatherings to prevent nCoV.

`I’ve seen a lot of parties like that,` said a resident of Urca, the headquarters of Rio’s yachting club.

The organizer of a recent party requested attendees wear masks, but no one did.

A man and a girl wearing swimsuits walk past a mural in Rio de Janeiro depicting a woman wearing a mask with the anti-Covid-19 message `Stay home`.

In Sao Paulo, where more than 8,000 people have died from Covid-19, parties are still taking place in many favelas such as Água Vermelha in the east of the city.

`The party was still going on when I headed to work,` said a local resident who worked as a grave digger.

In Porto Velho, the capital of Rondonia state in the Amazon region, police are investigating two recent shootings where people infected with nCoV allegedly went to nightclubs to dance.

`They don’t work, they just want to have fun, they are putting their own lives at risk, as well as the lives of those who do not follow the governor’s quarantine regulations,` said Fernando Máximo, head of the agency.

Even President Jair Bolsonaro violated the anti-epidemic regulations set by the Ministry of Health by attending a barbecue at a farm in the central part of the country the morning Azambuja was attacked.

Flávio Dino, Bolsonaro’s rival left-wing governor, said it was not surprising that efforts to keep Brazilians at home were not possible when there was an example like the President.

`When the governor says A, the president says B, and A and B are completely opposite, of course epidemic prevention efforts cannot be sustained long term,` said Dino, governor of Maranhao state in northern Brazil.

Azambuja has a two-year-old son. She is confused when some people seem incapable of thinking about others and complying with social distancing regulations during a health crisis like the current one, when the pandemic has

`When I was infected with nCoV at the beginning of the outbreak, my father brought me chicken soup and I told him to leave immediately. I didn’t even want him to come near my door,` she recalled.

`Every day I see this disease taking lives,` Azambuja said.

Azambuja is still determined to return to work even though his injury has not completely healed.