RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian oil regulator ANP has identified 897 suspected cases of the new coronavirus and 126 confirmed cases among oil and gas workers in the country, it told Reuters in an e-mail on Tuesday.
The regulator identified 74 of those workers who had tested positive for the coronavirus and recently visited offshore oil platforms in the country.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery and Marta Nogueira; Editing by Brad Haynes and Rosalba O’Brien)