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Brazil surpasses 496,000 deaths, closing in on half a million victims (June 17)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil registered 2,311 deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours and surpassed 496,000 deaths, while the number of infections exceeded 17.7 million.

Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus with 496,004 lethal victims since the beginning of the pandemic, in February last year, according to the most recent bulletin of the National Council of Health Secretariats (Conass), which brings together the regional secretariats of the 27 states of the country.

In the last day alone, 74,042 new infections were reported, bringing the total number of . . .

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