Brazil sees record high COVID-19 deaths two days in a row – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 3 (Xinhua) — Brazil on Wednesday saw record high daily deaths from the COVID-19 for the second day in a row, registering 1,910 deaths in 24 hours and bringing the national death toll to 259,271.
According to the Ministry of Health, in the past 24 hours, Brazil also saw the second-highest number of daily COVID-19 cases increase since the start of the outbreak, after 71,704 people tested positive, bringing the total caseload to 10,718,630.
The previous record of new cases in…

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