RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil reported 53,453 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily rate since mid-August, and 836 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday, December 12th.
The country has now registered 6,728,452 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 178,995, according to Health Ministry data, in the world’s third worst outbreak outside the United States and India.
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