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Brazil Overtakes France, Is Now 4th in Global Covid-19 Deaths

Workers wearing protective equipment bury the casket of a Covid-19 victim at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 29.

Photographer: Jonne Roriz/Bloomberg
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Brazil now ranks fourth in the world in coronavirus deaths as the outbreak continues to spread through Latin America’s largest economy.