BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil reported 50,230 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,079 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Friday.
Brazil has registered 2,962,442 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 99,572, according to ministry data, in the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak after the United States.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; editing by Diane Craft)
