Brazil surpasses France for fourth-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world
Workers wear protective clothing to bury a COVID-19 victim at the Sao Franciso Xavier cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 29, 2020. BRASILIA, BRAZIL -- Brazil on Saturday reached 28,834 coronavirus fatalities, authorities said, surpassing hard-hit France and becoming the country with the world's fourth-highest death toll.
That number brings Brazil's total caseload to 498,444, the second-highest in the world, lagging only behind the United States.Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro remain the hardest-hit states in Brazil in terms of sheer numbers, while per capita rates are higher in the country's impoverished north and northeast, where health facilities are reaching capacity.
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