Despite the widespread COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Brazil, about 80 percent of the adult population are fully vaccinated. 

But, since the pandemic hit Latin America’s most populous country, the death rate for one age group remains the same: children under five-years-old.

CGTN’s Lucrecia Franco reports from Rio de Janeiro.

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