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Brazil faces 400,000 COVID-19 deaths and new virus variants

May 1, 2021 2 Years ago

Brazil has surpassed 400,000 official coronavirus deaths amid warnings that new variants could fuel a tsunami of new infections. Brazilian scientists continue to blame the federal government’s slow response to the pandemic.

CGTN's Lucrecia Franco in Rio de Janeiro reports.

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