Brazil's Covid-19 death toll overtook Britain's to become the second highest in the world with 41,828 dead, but the World Health Organization said the nation's health system was standing up to the pressure. "The system as such from the data we see is not overwhelmed," the WHO's top emergencies expert Dr Mike Ryans aid, with few areas of Brazil using more than 80% of their hospitals' intensive care bed capacity.
Brazil clearly has hot spots in heavily-populated cities, he said, but overall its health system is coping with the world's second worst number of infections.
The Ministry of Health reported a cumulative total of 828,810 confirmed cases of coronavirus, with 25,982 new infections in the last 24 hours.