Brazil's coronavirus death toll has now overtaken Britain to become the second highest in the world with 41,828 deaths. He stated Brazil clearly has hotspots in heavily-populated cities but overall its health system is coping with the world's second worst number of infections. Brazil's Health Ministry reported 25,982 new infections in the last 24 hours today and more than 1,200 deaths a day since Tuesday. Despite the mounting toll, the country's president Jair Bolsonaro is moving to ease quarantine restrictions and reopen businesses. A poll by brokerage XP Investimentos released on Friday showed that 52% of Brazilians now favor easing quarantine restrictions, versus 44% against, even though 61% of those surveyed believe the worst is still to come.

Source: Daily Mail June 12, 2020 23:33 UTC