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Brazil registers 8,501 new COVID-19 cases, 179 deaths in last 24 hours - ministry

Reuters WORLD
Published November 03,2020
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People pay tribute of loved ones to mark Day of the Dead at Vila Formosa cemetery -- the largest in Latin America -- in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on November 2, 2020 amid the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP)

Brazil reported 8,501 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 179 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Monday.

The South American country has now registered 5,554,000 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 160,253, according to ministry data, in the world's most fatal outbreak outside the United States.