BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil has had 40,716 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,175 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.
The South American country has now registered 20,026,533 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 559,607, according to ministry data, in the world’s third worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Leslie Adler)
