MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th May, 2021) The number of new COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 85,536 to 15,519,525 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 2,383 to 432,628 people within the same period of time.
More than 14 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed more than 74,000 new coronavirus cases, with 2,383 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 585,000 fatalities, and third in terms of the number of confirmed cases after the US and India.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. To date, about 161.39 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 3.34 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
