Brazil’s president downplays pandemic as death toll soars

Brazil is on track to become the world leader of COVID-19 deaths, as the more contagious P.1 variant fuels a surge in cases. As Mike Drolet reports, grave diggers are struggling to find space to bury the dead, as President Jair Bolsonaro continues to downplay the pandemic.

• COVID-19 surges across the globe as countries report new records
• Brazil’s largest city begins exhuming old graves to make space for COVID-19 dead