MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th May, 2021) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 79,219 to 15,812,055 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Wednesday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 2,641 to 441,691 people within the same period of time.
More than 14.3 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed more than 75,000 new coronavirus cases, with 2,513 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 587,000 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, more than 164.44 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 3.4 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
