BRASILIA : Brazil reeled on Friday at a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths, pushing the toll past Italy's ahead of planned protests over the weekend against the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.In an editorial running the length of Folha de S.Paulo's front page, the widely circulated daily said just 100 days had passed since Bolsonaro described the virus now "killing a Brazilian per minute" as "a little flu.""While you were reading this, another Brazilian died from the coronavirus," the newspaper said.Brazil's Health Ministry reported late on Thursday that confirmed cases in the country had climbed past 600,000, with 1,437 deaths registered within 24 hours.With its official death toll now above 34,000, the pandemic has.