Brazil's COVID-19 deaths pass 162,000, with 5.6 million cases -ministry
- World
- Reuters
- Published Date: 01:27 | 07 November 2020
- Modified Date: 01:27 | 07 November 2020
Brazil reported 18,862 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 279 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Friday.
The South American country has now registered 5,631,181 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 162,015, according to ministry data, in the world's most fatal outbreak outside the United States.
OTHER WORLD NEWS