Brazil for the first time deplored more than 2,000 deaths from Covid-19 in 24 hours on Wednesday, according to the latest official report from the Ministry of Health, which reports 2,286 new deaths.
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The country of 212 million people, the second most bereaved in the world after the United States, now has 270,656 deaths caused by the virus, with 11.2 million people infected.