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Brazil expunges virus death toll as data befuddles experts

by Associated Press
| June 8, 2020 12:03 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America's largest nation.

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