Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passes 90,000
Brazil registered record daily numbers of infections and deaths from the new coronavirus Wednesday, sending its overall death toll surging past 90,000 people, AFP reports.
The country, which has been hit harder than any except the United States in the pandemic, recorded 69,074 new cases and 1,595 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.
That brought the figures to a total of more than 2.5 million cases and 90,134 people killed since the start of the pandemic.
Experts say under-testing in the country of 212 million people means the real numbers are probably much higher.
Technical issues likely contributed to the high daily figures.
The health ministry had said Tuesday that problems with its online reporting system had delayed figures from Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous state and the one with the most cases and deaths.
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