SAO PAULO: Brazil's most populous state Sao Paulo reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths for the second day running on Wednesday (Jun 10) even as its metropolis allowed shops to resume business and prepared to reopen its malls.

Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil, recorded 340 new deaths in the last 24 hours, raising the state's confirmed death toll to 9,862, a fourth of the country's total fatalities, the governor's office said.