Brazil on Friday surpassed 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, the health ministry said. The country of 213 million has also recorded more than 21.5 million cases of the deadly virus.
It is the second worst affected country in the world by Covid deaths after the United States, although many experts consider the official numbers to be underestimates.Brazil registered 615 new deaths on Friday, as well as 18,000 cases in the previous 24 hours.
She said the pandemic could only be considered under control once "we have 80 percent of the population vaccinated." Brazil's vaccination program began in late January, several weeks after the likes of Argentina and the US, something specialists blamed on a lack of government planning. That death rate dropped below 1,000 at the end of July and kept shrinking until it stabilized around 500 in September.
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