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World reaches 400,000 virus deaths as pope urges caution

by Associated Press
| June 9, 2020 12:03 AM

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country.

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