Brazil passes the mark of 50,000 coronavirus deaths as outbreak worsens

Brazil passed the mark of 50,000 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, with more than 1 million total cases, the Health Ministry said. 

Brazil, now the world's second coronavirus hot spot after the United States, has so far a total of 1,085,038 confirmed cases and 50,617 deaths, up from 49,976 deaths on Saturday, the ministry said.