Brazil Virus Toll Surges To Third-Highest In World
June 5, 2020
4:21 pm
Brazil’s death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed Italy’s to become the third-highest in the world Thursday, as the UN’s secretary-general called for a “people’s vaccine” to stem the pandemic.
The bleak figures from Brazil underlined the grim toll the virus is taking in Latin America, the latest epicenter in the pandemic, even as Europe seeks to reemerge from lockdown — including with a massive new 600-billion-euro ($674-billion) economic stimulus measure announced by the European Central Bank.
But on the medical side, the outlook remains blurry.
Even as researchers around the world race to develop and test vaccines, new — …
