Brazil's coronavirus death toll tops 15,000: official figures

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passed 15,000 on Saturday, official figures showed, while its number of infections topped 230,000, making it the country with the fifth highest number of cases in the world. 

With 15,633 deaths and 233,142 confirmed cases, Brazil – whose President Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the disease as a "little flu" – is at the epicenter of infections in Latin America.  

The pandemic has already claimed almost 310,000 lives worldwide.