Latin America is home to just 8 percent of the world's population - but has suffered nearly a third of all COVID-19 deaths. Brazil battles a second wave of COVID-19 infections, nearly 400,000 people have died so far. President Jair Bolsonaro has consistently played down the coronavirus but is now trying to get more vaccines from abroad.

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