Fresh protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s handling of Covid pandemic

Country's death toll nears 500,000 as opposition to the president grows and vaccination rates remain low

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Thousands of Brazilians returned to the streets on Saturday in protest against the response of Jair Bolsonaro's administration to a pandemic that has killed close on half a million people in the country - the most after the United States.

On the second day of demonstrations in less than a month, the anti-Bolsonaro mobilisation is gaining momentum amid an ascendant curve of Covid-19 infections, while only 11% of 212 million Brazilians have been fully vaccinated, according to local media.