Brazil registered 244 COVID-19 deaths on Sunday and 9,458 additional cases, according to data released by the nation's Health Ministry.
The South American country has now registered a total of 590,752 total coronavirus deaths and 21,239,783 total confirmed cases.
On Saturday, Brazil registered over 150,000 cases, due to a backlog of cases in Rio de Janeiro that had not been previously reported to the Health Ministry.
