Brazil has become the country with the third-highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, after registering a total of more than 255,000 cases. As of Tuesday, the country accounted for 255,368 cases, with 16,853 fatalities, the sixth-highest death toll in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
The US still accounts for the highest number of cases in the world at 1,508,957, followed in the second place by Russia with 290,678 infections. The grim milestone comes as country's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has dismissed the risks and compared COVID-19 to "a little flu", the BBC reported. "With my history as an athlete, if I were infected with the virus I would have no reason to worry. I would feel nothing, or it would be at most just a little flu," he has said.
Bolsonaro also continues to oppose lockdown measures, arguing that they will wreck the economy. (IANS)