Brasilia-Sana
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced that it had recorded 88,092 new infections and 2,504 deaths from the Corona virus, which causes Covid-19 infection, during the past 24 hours.
Reuters quoted the ministry as saying in a statement that the number of recorded infections with the virus rose 88,092 cases, compared to 85,748 the previous day, bringing the total number to about 17.211 million cases.
The ministry stated that it had monitored 2,504 new deaths from the disease, compared to 2,723 the day before, bringing the total number of pandemic victims in the country to 48,2019 deaths, with a lethality rate of 2.8 percent.
Brazil recorded the second largest death toll from the virus in the world after the United States and the third highest number of infections after the United States and India, and in recent weeks it has faced sharp increases for both indicators.
