BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil has had 39,846 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 827 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Monday, reflecting lower weekend reporting.
The South American country has now registered 17,452,612 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 488,228, according to ministry data, in the world’s third worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Leslie Adler)
