Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Brazil is the second country in the world after the USA to have exceeded the limit of 300,000 registered corona deaths.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced that 300,685 people have died in connection with Covid-19 since the pandemic began around a year ago. Only in the United States has more people fallen victim to the virus, with around 545,000 deaths. On Tuesday, Brazil passed the 3,000 death mark in 24 hours for the first time.
In the largest country in Latin America, more than 12.2 million people have been shown to be infected with the corona virus. In most states, intensive care units are at the limit. The right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro played down the corona virus from the start, rejecting a nationwide lockdown for economic reasons. After a televised address by the head of state on Tuesday, there were expressions of displeasure against the government’s corona policy in numerous cities in the country.
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