BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil reported 60,091 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,261 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday.
Brazil has registered 3,224,876 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 105,463, according to ministry data. Brazil ranks as the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Leslie Adler)
