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It started out well enough.
In the heart of New York City, on Central Park’s Great Lawn, the weather was overcast leading up to We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert, a genre-spanning spectacle produced by the city itself.
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Brazil recorded 14,404 new Covid cases over the latest 24 hour period, along with 318 deaths, the country’s health ministry said on Sunday.
Brazil has registered more than 20 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 574,527, Reuters reports.