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Brazil registered 3,808 Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday and 82,186 further coronavirus cases, according to data released by the country’s health ministry.
The South American country has now registered 358,425 total Covid-19 deaths and 13,599,994 total confirmed cases.
Venezuela’s government wants funds frozen in the US to be put toward paying for coronavirus vaccines and will keep working with the opposition to negotiate this payment, the head of the government-controlled legislature said.
Allies of opposition leader Juan Guaido have for months been in talks with state officials to buy vaccines through the COVAX program using funds frozen by the U.S. Treasury as part of sanctions against the government of President Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reports.
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