May 31, 2020 

Global coronavirus infections have passed the 6 million mark as Latin America hit the grim milestone of 50,000 deaths with Brazil alone accounting for half of those fatalities.

With at least 369,000 deaths confirmed worldwide since the pandemic began in China in January – and that number believed to be an underestimate – Brazil’s virus death toll of 28,834 has now surpassed that of France with the country reporting 33,274 new infections in the past 24 hours.

The 6 million infections total was passed as Pope Francis pointedly insisted that people were more important than economies as countries decide how quickly to reopen from coronavirus lockdowns.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/31/global-report-fears-of-coronavirus-surge-from-us-protests-as-world-cases-hit-6m