RIO DE JANEIRO: Hard-hit Brazil closed out its deadliest month of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic by far on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), with 66,573 people killed by Covid-19 in March, more than double the previous record.

An explosion of severe cases has overwhelmed many of the country’s hospitals, forcing doctors to make agonizing decisions over whom to give life-saving care and raising fears the new chapter of the crisis could spread beyond Brazil.

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