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Brazil Hits Record for Highest Daily Number of New COVID Cases

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   WASHINGTON - Brazil reportednearly 35,000new COVID-19 cases Tuesdaythe
   same day a top government officialdeclaredtheoutbreakthere was under
   control.

   The34,918total for Tuesday isthehighest daily number reported so far
   intheSouthAmericancountry.Brazil, the world's No. 2 coronavirus hotspot
   after the United States, is fast approaching 1 million cases. Experts
   say the true number is likely higher due to patchy testing. Brazil also
   registered 1,282 COVID-19 deaths since its last update on Monday, the
   Health Ministry said, bringing confirmed fatalities in the country to
   45,241.

   Brazil trails only the UnitedStatesfor the most cases overall.As of
   Tuesday,more than 2 millions Americans have been infected by the virus,
   and more than 116,125 have died, according to [1]Johns Hopkins
   University data.

   Walter Braga Netto, the head of the office of the president's chief of
   staff, and a top official overseeing the government's response to the
   outbreak saidonTuesday,"There is a crisis, we sympathize with bereaved
   families, but it is managed."

   ButPan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Carissa Etiennesays
   thereis no sign the spread of COVID-19 in Brazil is slowing down.

   Brazilian President JairBolsonaro,who has dismissed the virus as just a
   "little flu," has urged businesses to reopen and ordered state
   governors to loosen lockdown restrictions.

References

   1. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

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