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The front page of Wednesday’s Guardian:
Guardian front page, Wednesday 1 September 2021: ‘Why did they come if they wanted to leave us like this?’ pic.twitter.com/vlHPvCKdbG
Brazil recorded 24,589 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours along with 839 deaths, the country’s health ministry said on Tuesday.
Brazil has registered more than 20 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 580,413, according to ministry data, Reuters reports.
