Brazil's COVID-19 death toll becomes third largest in the world

As Brazil's coronavirus death toll rose to 34,021 on Thursday, the country has now overtaken Italy to report the third highest number of fatalities around the world.

Officials also registered 30,925 new COVID-19 cases, raising the country's nationwide tally to 614,941.

The number of global coronavirus cases has now reached 6,600,692, with at least 389,620 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University's latest data.