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  • As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors

    ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN|Apr 29, 2020

    BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Brazil's virtually uncontrolled surge of COVID-19 cases is spawning fear that construction workers, truck drivers and tourists from Latin America's biggest nation will spread the disease to neighboring countries that are doing a better job of controlling the coronavirus. Brazil, a continent-sized country that shares borders with nearly every other nation in South America, has reported more than 70,000 cases and more than 5,000 deaths, according to government figures and a tally by Johns Hopkins University — far mo...