Coronavirus live news: Brazil passes 700,000 infections as WHO warns pandemic is worsening

World records biggest jump in daily new cases; WHO says asymptomatic transmission ‘appears to be rare’; Moscow to lift lockdown. Follow the latest

South America’s worst affected country now has 707,412 and deaths recorded are 37,134. It marks a continuing steep rise – Brazil recorded 500,000 cases on 1 June.

A leading newspaper in the country reported that Brazil’s health ministry slashed the number of new Covid-19 deaths it reported on Sunday by 857 because far-right president Jair Bolsonaro wanted less than a thousand deaths a day.

Hello and welcome to our continuing live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic, with me Alison Rourke. If you would like to get in touch, you can email me at Alison.Rourke@guardian.co.uk.

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