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Brazil now has second highest Covid-19 death toll

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Brazil now has second highest Covid-19 death toll

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Brazilian officials on Friday reported 909 deaths over the previous 24 hours. It is the hardest-hit nation in Latin America, with more than 828,000 confirmed virus cases.

A man walks next to a graffiti depciting a cleaner wearing protective gear spraying viruses with the face of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro amid the Covid-19 outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12, 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

A man walks next to a graffiti depciting a cleaner wearing protective gear spraying viruses with the face of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro amid the Covid-19 outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 12, 2020. (Photo: Reuters)

Brazil’s health ministry says the country has recorded a total of 41,828 deaths during the coronavirus pandemic, meaning it has surpassed the United Kingdom and now has the second highest total in the world, according to tallies by Johns Hopkins University.

Brazilian officials on Friday reported 909 deaths over the previous 24 hours. It is the hardest-hit nation in Latin America, with more than 828,000 confirmed virus cases.

The news came as states and cities across Brazil start to ease restrictive measures introduced more than two months ago in hopes of limiting the spread of the coronavirus.

Shops and malls are being allowed to open for four hours a day in Sao Paulo, the epicenter of Brazil’s crisis. Stores have been crowded in smaller cities.

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