Brasilia-Sana
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 42,159 new cases of the emerging coronavirus.
Reuters quoted the ministry as saying in a statement that 1,056 deaths due to the virus were recorded in the country during the past 24 hours.
Brazil currently occupies the third place in the number of Corona virus infections in the world after the United States and India, and it also occupies the second place globally in the number of deaths.