Cemetery workers bury coronavirus victim Elisa Moreira de Araujo at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, July 16. She was 79.
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In pictures: The coronavirus is surging in Brazil

Updated 3:19 PM ET, Fri July 17, 2020

Cemetery workers bury coronavirus victim Elisa Moreira de Araujo at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday, July 16. She was 79.
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Brazil is one of the few large countries in the world where coronavirus cases — and death rates — are still rising.

It is Latin America's hardest-hit country, with confirmed cases climbing by the thousands each day.

Only the United States has more confirmed cases than Brazil, which has passed 2 million. More than 75,000 people have died.

After months of downplaying the virus, deriding it as just a "little flu," President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19, he announced on July 7.