RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil registered 56,873 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and 1,232 deaths, according to data released by the nation’s Health Ministry.
The South American country has now registered 9,396,293 total confirmed cases and 228,795 deaths from the virus. It was the third day in a row Brazil reported over 1,200 coronavirus deaths.
(Reporting by Gram Slattery; Editing by Leslie Adler)
