06-05-2020, 01:45 PM
Brazil overtakes Italy as country with third-highest Coronavirus deaths; Toll tops 34,000
Brazil has overtaken Italy as the country with the third-highest Coronavirus death toll after a daily record of 1,473 fatalities took its total tally to more than 34,000.
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The figure published by Brazil’s health ministry on Thursday night showed that only the United States and the United Kingdom have registered more deaths from the disease.Â
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 The official number of infections rose to nearly 615,000, the second-largest caseload in the world, behind the US.
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Shortly before the numbers were released, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro said in an online broadcast: “We can’t go on like this. Nobody can take it anymore,” Bolsonaro said of the stay-at-home measures, being implemented by state governors and mayors across Brazil even as the number of infections and deaths continues to increase.Â
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“The collateral impact will be far greater than those people who unfortunately lost their lives because of these last three months here,” Bolsonaro said.
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Brazil has overtaken Italy as the country with the third-highest Coronavirus death toll after a daily record of 1,473 fatalities took its total tally to more than 34,000.
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The figure published by Brazil’s health ministry on Thursday night showed that only the United States and the United Kingdom have registered more deaths from the disease.Â
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 The official number of infections rose to nearly 615,000, the second-largest caseload in the world, behind the US.
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Shortly before the numbers were released, Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro said in an online broadcast: “We can’t go on like this. Nobody can take it anymore,” Bolsonaro said of the stay-at-home measures, being implemented by state governors and mayors across Brazil even as the number of infections and deaths continues to increase.Â
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“The collateral impact will be far greater than those people who unfortunately lost their lives because of these last three months here,” Bolsonaro said.
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