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Former Health Minister Mandetta Says Brazil Could Reach 100,000 Deaths in Weeks

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Three months after being fired as Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta's worst fear is coming true. On Tuesday, Brazil recorded almost 68,000 new Covid-19 cases, a record that eclipses the preceding one by over 20 percent and rivals figures seen in the United States, with a population 50 percent larger.

Mandetta, who pressed for the country to be quarantined at the very outset of the pandemic, was fired . . .

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