RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil recorded 39,483 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours as well as 1,141 deaths, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Brazil has registered more than 1.2 million cases since the pandemic began, while cumulative deaths total 54,971, according to the ministry.
(Reporting by Pedro Fonseca and Jake Spring; editing by Grant McCool)
