Brazil’s health ministry has said that the country has now surpassed more than four million cases of Covid-19. The total number of deaths in the country from the virus is now more than 120,000 but there are signs that the spread of the virus is slowing.

Brazil is still the worst-hit country after the US in terms of both fatalities and infections but after a long period of consistently high numbers, the death-toll from Covid-19 seems to be easing and the transmission rate falling.

It’s early days though, and numbers still remain high - on Thursday, more than 40,000 new infections were recorded and 834 people died.

Meanwhile, Rio’s beaches are filling up, shops and restaurants have re-opened across the country and most people have returned to work – so experts have cautioned against declaring that the worst is over.