Brazil Reports 555 COVID-19 Deaths in 24 Hours

With Brazil confirming 555 new COVID-19 related deaths on Sunday, the country's death toll climbed to 87,004. The spike in death was seen in the last 24 hours.

In the same period of time, tests detected 24,578 new cases of infection, bringing the total caseload since the start of the national outbreak to 2,419,091, Xinhua reported.

‘Brazil is the second leading nation in the world after the United Sates, in terms of both the number of cases and number of deaths related to COVID-19 infection.’

According to the Health Ministry's latest pandemic report, 1,634,274 patients have recovered from the disease.

Brazil has the world's second-largest outbreak after the United States, in both the number of cases and number of deaths.

Sunday's reported number of daily deaths was roughly half the number of daily deaths reported in the past six days, mainly due to a lack of timely reporting on weekends.

Sao Paulo state, where Latin America's first case was detected on February 26, is Brazil's hardest hit, with 21,606 deaths. In second place is neighbouring Rio de Janeiro, with 12,835 deaths.

Source: IANS