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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Is Brazil trying to hide the true toll numbers?

Meanwhile, India enters the list of top 5 infected nations; European airlines set to resume operations

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A passenger undergoes screening after arriving at Kempegowda International airport for domestic travel, during the ongoing Covid-19 nationwide lockdown in Bengaluru. Photo: PTI

Yuvraj Malik New Delhi
Brazil's government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America's largest nation.

Brazil’s last official numbers showed it had recorded over 34,000 deaths related to the coronavirus, the third-highest number in the world, just ahead of Italy. It reported nearly 615,000 infections, putting it at the second-highest, behind the United States. Read more here 

Let’s look at the global statistics:

Total Confirmed Cases: 6,898,613

Change Over Yesterday: 259,521

Total Deaths: 399,832

Total Recovered: 3,087,714