MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 03rd July, 2021) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 65,165 to 18,687,469 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 1,857 to 521,952 people within the same period of time.
More than 16.98 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed record 65,163 new coronavirus cases, with 2,029 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 605,000 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 182.97 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 3.96 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
