Brazil reports more than 33,500 new COVID-19 cases
Rio De Janeiro/UNI: Brazil confirmed 33,523 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, along with more than 800 new deaths in that period, the country’s Health Ministry informs.
Brazil's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases now stands at 4,315,687.
In the past 24 hours, 814 new coronavirus-related deaths were confirmed in Brazil with the total death toll now standing at 131,210, the ministry said on Saturday.
A week ago, Brazil’s coronavirus death toll was 125,521, thus the country has seen a weekly rise of about 6,000 coronavirus-related fatalities, about the same as in the previous 7-day period.
More than 3.5 million people have recovered from COVID-19 in Brazil.
Brazil has the second-largest coronavirus death toll of all the countries in the world, it is surpassed only by the US which has registered more than 193,500 coronavirus-related fatalities, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
Brazil is now third in terms of the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases.
India is second with over 4.6 million coronavirus cases, while the US has the largest number of cases - more than 6.4 million.
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