Why US, Brazil, India & Russia account for nearly half of coronavirus cases globally

by Leandra Bernstein

Tue, June 23rd 2020, 9:57 PM UTC

Health worker Ari Nascimento collects material from Geralda da Costa for a COVID-19 test as relatives wait for their turn to be tested in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Several members of the family where feeling symptoms and some already tested positive for the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Customers wait to enter the Madureira Market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. Rio continues with its plan to ease restrictive measures and open the economy to avoid an even worse economic crisis, amid the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Grave diggers wearing protective suits bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, in the special purpose for coronavirus victims section of a cemetery in Kolpino, outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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Health worker Ari Nascimento collects material from Geralda da Costa for a COVID-19 test as relatives wait for their turn to be tested in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Several members of the family where feeling symptoms and some already tested positive for the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

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