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Brazilian funeral directors move a coffin to a person who died of coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced, on Wednesday evening, that it had recorded 63,520 infections and 1,283 new deaths from the Coronavirus, an increase for both indicators compared with previous data.
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The Ministry stated, in a daily statistics, that the number of registered infections with Coronavirus “Covid-19” in the country during the past 24 hours increased by 63,520, bringing the total number to 8996876 cases.
This outcome comes after the index of new infections in Brazil on January 23, reached 62,334 cases, on January 24, 28,323, on January 25, 26,816, and on January 26, 19663.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health also stated that it had detected 1,283 deaths from the disease, bringing the death toll from the pandemic in the country to the level of 202,161 people.
And the death index of the virus in Brazil on January 23, 1202, reached two cases, on January 24, 592, on January 25, 627, and on January 26, 1214.
Brazil recorded the second largest death toll from the virus in the world after the United States, and the third highest number of infections after the United States and India.
Source: Agencies
