Brazil has recorded its largest one-day death toll of the Covid pandemic so far after 4,249 people perished from the disease in just 24 hours on Thursday. The figure tops the country's previous one-day record, set just 48 hours earlier, which was 4,195. It brings the country's death total to 345,025 - the second-highest in the world, after the US. Brazil also logged 86,652 new cases Thursday, the second-highest one-day toll anywhere in the world after India, bringing its overall case-load to almost 13.2million. As Brazil suffers the worst of the pandemic, the country has become a testing ground for new vaccines.

Source: The Nation April 09, 2021 09:56 UTC