Brazil has lost two health ministers; their replacement is a general. The country now probably has the highest prevalence of active coronavirus infections in the world.
South Korea was briefly the worst-hit country outside China. It has suppressed the virus, albeit with myriad curtailments of everyday life. Just 280 people have died in total. In Britain in mid-April, that death toll would have been reached each morning before breakfast.
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