Brazil, about 1,200 deaths from the Coronavirus in 24 hours

On Tuesday, 1,179 patients died in 24 hours, and the total number of victims went to 17,971. This was a record figure, since the highest daily figure before this was recorded on 12 May, when 881 people had died, writes the Guardian”, the Express broadcast.

The new figures were released at a time when it is warned that some large Latin American cities are at risk of being included by an extremely high number of cases. More than 85 percent of beds in intensive care departments are busy in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

On Monday, Brazil placed third place in Great Britain on the list of countries with the most people infected with coronarys.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is an ideological ally of American counterpart Donald Trump, has been criticised for the way the pandemic is managed, including the opposition to restrictive measures, which he describes as too damaging to the economy.

Otherwise, the World Bank warned on Tuesday that 60 million people could be affected by extreme poverty as a result of pandemic and said it expects a 5 per cent contraction of the global economy this year, with the worst effects being in the poorest states.