Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths

Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll of 31,199 released Tuesday is the fourth-highest in the world, after the US, Britain and Italy. (Reuters)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America’s worst-hit country.
Figures released by the health ministry showed 1,262 deaths in the previous 24-hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.
The overall number of cases — 555,383 — makes Brazil the second most affected country by the crisis after the United States in terms of infections.
The official COVID-19 death toll of 31,199 released Tuesday is the fourth-highest in the world, after the US, Britain and Italy.