Brazil recorded 42,223 additional coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Friday, bringing the total tally to 1,539,081, the second-worst outbreak in the world behind the United States.
Brazil recorded 30,476 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 552 additional deaths, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Brazil registered 42,725 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said Wednesday, as experts warned the country was exiting lockdown too soon.
The global death toll from the novel coronavirus has surpassed 479,000 with some 9,359,372 infections worldwide, according to tallies on Tuesday
The WHO has reported the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Brazil exceeded one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, joining the US in having more than a million cases.
Brazil Health Ministry registered 32,188 new cases of the virus since its Thursday update, for a total of 960,309 confirmed cases, also second to the United States globally.
Brazil on Thursday passed two grim milestones: 40,000 Covid-19 deaths and some 800,000 coronavirus cases.
Critics are accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of manipulating the figures showing the spiraling coronavirus death toll in Brazil, after his government first stopped reporting the total number of fatalities and infections, and then released conflicting data.
Latin America recorded nearly 1.2 million cases and some 57,500 deaths from the novel coronavirus as of Thursday, according to data from US-based Johns Hopkins University.