July 13, 2020 03:29 am | Updated 03:30 am IST - RIO DE JANEIRO
Municipal guards stop a man on a bike to tell him to wear a mask at Copacabana beach amid the outbreak of the new coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 12, 2020.
Brazil, the world's No. 2 coronavirus hot spot after the United States, registered 631 new deaths on Sunday, with a new total of 1,864,681 confirmed cases, the Health Ministry said.
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Brazil now has an official total of 72,100 deaths, the country’s Health Ministry said.
The numbers of deaths and cases are usually lower on the weekend because of patchy reporting. Experts say the true totals are likely far higher due to a lack of testing.
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