RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil reported a record 1,349 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period Wednesday, the health ministry said, as the pandemic continued to take a grim toll on Latin America's hardest-hit
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil reported a record 1,349 coronavirus deaths in a 24-hour period Wednesday, the health ministry said, as the pandemic continued to take a grim toll on Latin America's hardest-hit country.
Experts say under-testing in the country of 210 million people means the real numbers are probably much higher. Bolsonaro, who famously compared the virus to a "little flu," appears to have pinned his hopes on the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to stop it. "We have several curves," Gabbardo said, adding Brazil could face a similar situation to Italy, "which had a large number of deaths in the north and not in the south."
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