Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on after a meeting with the heads of National Congress, the Supreme Court and governors, in Brasilia, Brazil, March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil is set to pass 300,000 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, as President Jair Bolsonaro's fourth health minister used his first official day in the job to pledge a vaccination goal of 1 million shots a day to put the brakes on the snowballing crisis.
Latin America's biggest country, already home to the world's second-highest coronavirus death toll after the United States, has become the global epicenter of COVID-19 deaths, with one in four global fatalities currently a Brazilian.
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