Brazil tops 400,000 virus deaths amid fears of renewed surge

Cemetery workers bury a person who died from complications related to Covid (Nelson Antoine/AP)

Brazil has become the second country to officially top 400,000 Covid-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead when the Southern Hemisphere enters winter.

April was Brazil’s deadliest month of the pandemic, with thousands of people losing their lives daily at crowded hospitals.