A civil police officer walks in a night club during a joint operation with Procon (Foundation for Consumer Protection and Defense) to target clandestine parties and crowds that violate social distancing restrictions amid a rise in cases and deaths due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police broke up an illegal party with nearly 600 people in a windowless Sao Paulo nightclub in the early hours of Saturday, highlighting defiance of social distancing rules that has made the country's outbreak the world's deadliest at the moment.
COVID-19 killed 12,000 Brazilians over the past week, more than any other country. With 275,000 lives lost in total, Brazil's death toll lags only the United States, where the epidemic is slowing dramatically.
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