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A surge in cases and record high daily death tolls have pushed Brazil into a COVID crisis. Above: Health professionals help patients with symptoms of the new coronavirus on a boat ambulance. Michael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
As coronavirus numbers improve in many countries, in Brazil, things are getting worse – a lot worse.
The country is seeing a surge in cases of a seemingly more contagious variant infecting people who have already been sick. And on Wednesday, Brazil – second only to the U.S. in the number of people who have died – hit their highest death toll number recorded in a single day: more than 1,900.
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