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Brazil: Fighting the pandemic with songs

An old tradition, repackaged and successfully marketed: Maria Delgado and her fellow cotton spinners are known for their sheets and tablecloths. But when sales fell in the pandemic they started to add a sung poem as a bonus. Since then, business has boomed and they can hardly keep up.

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