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On Tuesday, June 2nd, Brazil recorded a staggering 1,262 deaths in 24 hours, surpassing 30,000 deaths. Brazil officially counts 31,199 deaths from coronavirus, and has the fourth highest death toll from the virus after the US, Britain and Italy. Yesterday, 28,936 new infections were recorded, taking the overall number of confirmed cases to 555,383. Brazil is the second most affected country after the United States. On Tuesday, Sao Paulo recorded its highest daily death toll and highest number of daily infections. Cities across Sao Paulo began reopening offices and shopping malls yesterday. As of now, Sao Paulo counts close Yesterday, Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, told supporters outside the presidential palace in Brasilia that he regrets each of the deaths, "but that's everyone's destiny."

As of Sunday morning, Brazil had recorded 33,000 new coronavirus cases and 956 deaths from the virus, taking their total number of cases closer to 500,000 (498,440) and total number of fatalities from the virus to 28,834. Brazil now has the fourth-highest coronavirus death toll in the world, and the second-highest number of cases. Only the US has more cases (1.77 million).  Brazil's deaths curve is much steeper than those of countries like France, the UK and Italy. In Brazil, the number of deaths has been doubling about every two weeks. In the UK, it doubled every two months, in France, every four months. Brazil President Bolsonaro has called for Brazil's football season to reason despite the sharp increase in the number of new cases. He also mingles with hundreds of supporters in Brasilia without a face mask on.