Brazil tops 25,000 virus deaths

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed 25,000 on Wednesday, as the country emerged as the latest epicenter in the global pandemic. The health ministry said it had confirmed 1,086 new deaths in the past 24 hours. It was the fifth time the number exceeded 1,000 since the crisis accelerated in Brazil a week ago. That pushed the nationwide death toll to 25,598, the sixth-highest in the world. The country of 210 million people now has 411,821 confirmed cases of the virus, second only to...