WorlPosted at: Aug 15 2021 6:38AM

Number of COVID-19 cases in Brazil rises by 31,142 to over 20.35Mln: Ministry of Health

Moscow, Aug 15 (UNI/Sputnik) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 31,142 to 20,350,142 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Saturday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 926 to 568,788 people within the same period of time.
More than 19.19 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 33,933 new coronavirus cases, with 966 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 621,000 fatalities, and third in terms of the number of confirmed cases after the US and India.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, more than 206.65 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.35 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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