Brazil is third in the world with more than 20 million recorded coronavirus infections and second in fatalities, now above 570,000. 

The country is struggling with its vaccine rollout and bracing for a third pandemic wave triggered by the contagious Delta variant. 

Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s biggest Delta hotspot. CGTN’s Lucrecia Franco reports from one of Rio’s hospitals.

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