Topline More than a half-million Brazilians have died of Covid-19, officials said Saturday, making Brazil the second country on Earth to pass that bleak milestone — but unlike some other large countries, Brazil is still grappling with high daily case rates and low vaccination levels. Healthcare workers care for Covid-19 patients at a field hospital in the Pedro Dell’Antonia Sports … [+] Complex in Santo Andre, Brazil on May 17, 2021. Getty Images Key Facts Some 500,800 people in Brazil have died from the coronavirus, according to government figures updated Saturday, an increase of more than 2,000 in one day. Brazil’s coronavirus outbreak is the world’s second deadliest, behind only the United States, which has logged more than 600,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic. Case counts haven’t relented in Brazil: Some 505,000 people contracted the virus in the last week, just 30,000 below the country’s mid-March peak, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 2,000 Brazilians are still dying from the virus every day on average, compared to 3,000 daily deaths in early April. Big Number 29%. That’s the share of Brazilians who have received at least one Covid-19 vaccine d… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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