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Brazil reports 50,163 coronavirus cases, 888 deaths

Reuters WORLD
Published September 05,2020
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The number of people infected with the coronavirus in India rose by another 80,000 and is near Brazil's total, the second-highest in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Brazil recorded 50,163 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, as well as 888 deaths from the disease, the Health Ministry said on Friday.

Brazil has registered nearly 4.1 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 125,502, according to ministry data.