Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 4,50,000
The Hindu
World Health Organization has declared that mutation a “variant of concern,” like another that emerged in Brazil.
Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 450,000 on Tuesday, as delays plague the hard-hit country’s vaccine rollout and epidemiologists warned a brutal new surge of the virus could be coming. The health ministry reported 2,173 deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the official number of lives lost to the coronavirus in Brazil to 452,031, second only to the United States. The situation has stabilized somewhat, with an average of 1,854 COVID-19 deaths per day over the past week — down from more than 3,000 in mid-April.More Related News