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the workers hit hardest tend to be those with the lowest wages who work in hands on jobs like mary benedetta oh . the work. for millions like her there's a long hard road ahead rob reynolds al-jazeera. brazil's governments it's now recorded more than 4000000 cases of corona virus nearly 125000 people have died in the world's 2nd largest outbreak there are indications that the rates of infection could be slowing as manuel rup below explains. will run very briefly through the latest data from brazil's health ministry as of thursday evening the number of confirmed cases of code 1000 was 4041638 only the united states compared to the rest of the world has a higher number of confirmed cases then brazil i don't think anyone could have imagined brazil being at this point more than 4000000 confirmed cases has represent somewhere close to 2 percent of the country's population but it there could be signs that things are improving if you look at the daily contagion rate the daily death rate over the past few weeks it does show signs that the health crisis is starting to improve last week the daily deat

the workers hit hardest tend to be those with the lowest wages who work in hands on jobs like mary benedetta oh that's not bad don't want to work and i have to either find a job for millions like her there's a long hard road ahead rob reynolds al-jazeera an armed group has returned to its base in the democratic republic of congo after a standoff outside a prison around $300.00 fighters from the so-called co-operative for the development of the congo and to the town of bunia on friday they did initially given the army a deadline to release fellow members who are being held in the jail they've since left often ago seizing but the military although it's unclear what exactly was discussed welcome webb has been following developments from nairobi. hundreds of fighters piled into the town they were demanding the release of prisoners and also demanding the terms of a provisional deal that they'd made we've some factions of the army to be upheld they want to be demobilized they want to be integrated into the army for fighters to be given food rations this is something that they say they've been prom