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The WHO warned against a "significant resurgence" in cases in several European states, while US and India set new coronavirus infection records.
Europe and Central Asia are once again at the "epicentre" of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a possible 500,000 additional deaths before February 1.
Brazil on Saturday became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic. Bolsonaro has been criticized for downplaying the pandemic from the outset, opposing lockdown measures and plugging unproven medical treatments for Covid-19, and on Saturday thousands of Brazilians again took to the streets in protest against him. FRANCE 24's Douglas Herbert gives us his analysis.
Anti-government protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Saturday as the nation's confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million — a tragedy many critics blame on President Jair Bolsonaro's attempt to minimise the disease. Brazil registered 2,301 new deaths in the past 24 hours. FRANCE 24 correspondent Tim Vickery tells us more.
Europe is the world's worst-hit region with a coronavirus death toll of at least 1,000,288 on Monday.