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A. Peru is bordered in the east by Brazil, the southeast by Bolivia, the south by Chile, the west by the Pacific Ocean, the northwest by Ecuador and northeast by Colombia. After months of criticism of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak, the government removed the COVID-19 data and now only reports cases and deaths for the past 24 hours.
C. With more than 109,000 COVID-19 deaths, the United States has nearly as many deaths as the next three nations combined – the United Kingdom with over 40,000, Brazil’s 35,930 and Italy with more than 33,000. Brazil removed its data after the nation reported more than 1,000 deaths a day for four consecutive days.
C. About 50 percent of the world’s oxygen-producing photosynthesis comes from phytoplankton microorganisms in the oceans. Scientists say claims the Amazon produces 20 percent of the world’s oxygen are exaggerated and it actually is closer to 10 percent. But, the Amazon does trap a great deal of carbon and increased burning of the forest is releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide.
B. In Colombia, which has about 10 percent of the rainforest, doctors in the Amazon have had to airlift patients to Bogota because the only oxygen plant in the region is barely functioning. In all, nine nations have some territory in the 2.7 million square miles of the Amazon basin.