BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has had 8,833 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 217 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.
The South American country has now registered 22,012,150 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 612,587, according to ministry data, in the world’s third-worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest.