Brazil reached the mark of 500,000 deaths by COVID-19 this Saturday (19), becoming the second country in the world to surpass half a million deaths due to the disease. On June 15, the United States exceeded 600,000 deaths.

According to data from the state health secretariats gathered by the press consortium that monitors the pandemic in the country, Brazil reported 20.483 new COVID-19 cases and 1.401 additional deaths on Saturday, bringing total cases to 17.822.659 and the death toll to 500.022. 

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