South Africa hits record daily cases; Brazilians call for Bolsonaro’s resignation – as it happened
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11.54pm BST
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11.35pm BST
Brazil's health ministry announced another 54,556 new cases of coronavirus and 1,635 deaths linked to Covid-19 in the past 24 hours.
That means Brazil has now had 18,742,025 cases and 523,587 deaths because of the virus.