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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll tops 300,000

March 25, 2021

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll has topped 300,000 -- the second highest in the world behind the US. Right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has launched a crisis taskforce. The outbreak is being fuelled by a local variant of the coronavirus. Anger among the people is growing, but Bolsonaro says vaccines are on the way.

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