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A total of 171 people have died from south Brazil's worst climate disaster on record in the Rio Grande do Sul state, the state's civil defense agency said on Saturday.
Cases of leptospirosis, a bacterial illness, are also on the rise, it said.
Aerial view of a flooded training center next to the Beira-Rio stadium in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 30, 2024. /CFP
Since April 29, floods caused by record rains and rising rivers have affected 2.39 million people in the state, with 43 missing and 617,900 having been evacuated from their destroyed or flooded homes, according to the agency.
The affected cities have been relieved in the past week, thanks to the dry weather that allowed rescue and reconstruction work to be conducted as well as the beginning of subsidy payments to the affected.
The climate tragedy has affected 475 of the 497 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul, an important agricultural hub in Brazil and a top producer of rice in Latin America.