MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 07th August, 2021) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 42,159 to 20,108,746 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Friday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 1,056 to 561,762 people within the same period of time.
More than 18.86 million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 40,054 new coronavirus cases, with 1,099 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 615,000 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 201.41 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.27 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
