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		</div><p>Brazil was leaping towards a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, and five months after the first reported case the country was showing no signs of crushing the disease.</p>
<p>Brazil, a nation of 210 million people, has been reporting an average of more than 1,000 daily deaths from the pandemic since late May.</p>
<p>The health ministry on Friday said there had been a total of 2,962,442 confirmed infections and 99,572 deaths, tolls second only to the United States.</p>
<p>And as in many countries, experts believe that both numbers are severe undercounts due to insufficient testing.</p>
<p>In a tribute to Covid-19 victims, the non-governmental group Rio de Paz placed crosses and a thousand red balloons on the sand on the famed Copacabana beach.</p>
<p>“It’s very sad. Those 100,000 represent various families, friends, parents, children”, said Marcio Silva, 55, who lost his children in the pandemic and joined the tribute.<br />
One poster read: “100 thousand: Why are we the second country in number of deaths?”</p>
<p>At the end of the tribute, members of the NGO released the balloons, which sailed into the sky.</p>
<p>President Jair Bolsonaro, who himself reported being infected, has been a consistent sceptic about the impact of the disease and an advocate of lifting restrictions on the economy that had been imposed by state governors trying to combat it.</p>
<p>He has frequently mingled in crowds, sometimes without a mask.</p>
<p>“I regret all the deaths, it’s already reaching the number 100,000, but we are going to find a way out of that”, Mr Bolsonaro said in a Thursday night Facebook transmission.</p>
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