# World

Brazil’s Covid-19 deaths pass 400,000

Since the beginning of this year, Brazil has been facing a new wave of the virus, which has resulted in the collapse of a large part of its healthcare system.

IANS | April 30, 2021 1:49 pm

Brazil reported 3,001 new deaths related to Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the national death toll to 401,186, the Ministry of Health reported.

The ministry said that tests detected 69,389 new Covid-19 cases, taking its nationwide tally to 14,590,678, the Xinhua news agency reported.

April has been the month with the most deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic in the Latin American nation.

Sao Paulo, home to 46 million inhabitants, is the country’s hardest-hit state, with 95,532 deaths and 2,888,158 infections.

Since the beginning of this year, Brazil has been facing a new wave of the virus, which has resulted in the collapse of a large part of its healthcare system.

# Opinion

Policy balance

The recent appointment of Sanjay Malhotra as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), replacing Shaktikanta Das, signals a pivotal shift in India’s monetary policy dynamics.

# Sports

Rewind 2024: India’s bittersweet campaign in Paris

Last minute preparations, exposure camps abroad, TOPs funding, overlooking administrative mess-ups to pick the crème de la crème of Indian sports for the biggest show on earth that unfolded in Paris three years after COVID-19 pushed the Tokyo edition of the Olympics by a year.

# India

Orissa HC directs Govt to grant Rs 50 lakh, family pension to Covid warrior’s widow

The Orissa High Court has directed the State Government to expeditiously grant Rs 50 lakh ex-gratia and family pension to a widow whose husband, a police constable died of Covid-19 during duty when the pandemic was at its peak.