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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll passes 195,000 -ministry

Reuters WORLD
Published January 02,2021
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An overview of Copacabana beach during New Year's Eve, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 31, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Landau

Brazil reported 24,605 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 462 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said on Friday.

The South American country has now registered 7,700,578 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 195,411, according to ministry data, in the world's third worst outbreak outside the United States and India.