Brazil's Covid-19 death toll tops 10,000
Baku, May 10, AZERTAC
Another 730 people have died from coronavirus in Brazil, bringing the national death toll to 10,627.
The country's health ministry confirmed on Saturday Covid-19 infections had climbed by 10,611 to 155,939.
Brazil is the sixth country in the world to see its death toll from the virus exceed 10,000. Only the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France have lost more people to the disease, according to the independent tally kept by a team at Johns Hopkins University.
Nearly 40 per cent of infected people in Brazil have recovered, the health ministry said in its latest bulletin.
The number of active cases is 83,627.
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