Brazil sees record 4,195 daily COVID-19 deaths

Brazil on Tuesday registered a record 4,195 deaths from COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, taking the accumulated pandemic death toll to 336,947, the country’s Health Ministry said.

Meanwhile, 86,979 people tested positive on the last day, bringing the national tally to around 13,100,580.

Health authorities in the hard-hit city of Sao Paulo warned that April will be the worst month of the pandemic, eclipsing the deaths seen in March throughout Brazil.

Brazil started its vaccination process on January 17 and has so far inoculated 20,023,132 people with at least one dose, while 5,595,929 people have received both doses, according to official data compiled by the local press.

The South American country has the world’s second-largest outbreak in terms of both deaths and cases, after the United States.

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