Brazil surpasses 150,000 coronavirus deaths
- 11 Oct 2020
An excavator is seen during a collective burial due to the coronavirus disease at a cemetery in Manaus, Brazil. Reuters
Brazil registered 559 additional coronavirus deaths over the last 24 hours and 26,749 new cases, the nation's Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The South American country has now registered 5,082,637 total confirmed coronavirus cases and 150,198 total deaths.
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More than 36.93 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,067,766 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the first cases were identified in China in December 2019.
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