Brazil on track to surpass the U.S. in coronavirus deaths this summer, following record increase

Coronavirus cases have surged dramatically in Brazil as the country struggles to put a lid on the pandemic. On Tuesday, Brazil experienced a record increase of nearly 35,000 daily coronavirus cases. Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)'s director of the Andes, told CBS News on Wednesday that she wouldn't 'trust' numbers released by the Brazilian government. She believes they're much higher than what has been reported, citing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's lack of transparency on the data. 'There are questions about really how much testing is going on in most of the areas worst affected, which may also influence the numbers,' she said. 'The fact that it's spreading like wildfire is completely not a surprise.'