
Brazil's Covid-19 death toll tops 500,000
India Today
The death toll from the novel coronavirus disease in Brazil has exceeded 500,000, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Brazil said Saturday that more than 500,000 people in the country are confirmed to have died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 2,000 daily deaths in recent days. Brazil’s reported death toll is second only to that of the U.S., where the number of lives lost has topped 600,000. Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga confirmed that the official death toll had passed 500,000.
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