MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 15th October, 2021) The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Brazil has increased by 14,288 to 21,612,237 within the past 24 hours, the national Ministry of Health said on late Thursday.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 525 to 602,099 people within the same period of time.
More than 20.75�million patients have recovered since the start of the outbreak.
A day earlier, the country confirmed 7,852 new cases, with 176 fatalities.
Brazil comes second in terms of the death toll following the United States with more than 720,000 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 239.52 million people have been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, with over 4.87 million fatalities, according to Johns Hopkins University.
