Brazil's virus crisis deepened as it recorded the highest daily death toll in the world for the fifth straight day.
Latin America’s biggest country saw an additional 1,039 Covid-19 deaths, taking its total to 24,512.
The figures emerged as the region was declared the new centre of the global pandemic by the Pan American Health Organisation.
A US travel ban took effect yesterday for foreigners coming from Brazil, where President Jair Bolsonaro has raged against state and local leaders enforcing stay-at-home measures despite warnings that the outbreak is deepening.
Brazil has about 375,000 confirmed infections — second only to the 1.6 million US cases — but many fear a lack of general testing means the toll is much higher.
