Brazil Marks Grim Covid Milestone With 3 Million Confirmed Cases

Infections surged by 1 million in just the past three weeks
Virus deaths now exceed 100,000 in LatAm’s biggest economy

Members of the Military Firefighter Brigade of Minas Gerais (CBMMG) move an isolation stretcher used to transport remote coronavirus patients, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on July 22.Photographer: Douglas Magno/AFP via Getty Images

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By Julia Leite and Murilo Fagundes

August 8, 2020 at 5:47 PM EDT

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Brazil topped 3 million coronavirus infections as the disease flares up in parts of the country it had spared, spreading misery from the beaches of Bahia to the soybean fields of the vast interior.

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