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Brazil records 100,000 Covid cases in single day

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Brazil surpassed 100,000 new Covid-19 cases in one day yesterday, adding another grim record in a country where the pandemic has killed more than 300,000 people.

With the new cases, at least 12.3 million people are now known to have been infected with the coronavirus in Brazil. After the United States, it is the hardest-hit country anywhere in the world.

The toll has risen steadily since February, due to factors including people's abandoning of social distancing norms, and a new virus variant that emerged there, which is believed to be more contagious than the original strain.

Another big problem is that the country's vaccination drive is moving slowly. The average of new daily infections over the past seven days is 77,050 - twice what

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