Covid-19: Brazil registers 63,400 new cases and 2,200 deaths (May 8)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil registers 421,316 covid-19 deaths so far. In 24 hours, 2,202 deaths and 63,430 new cases were confirmed. In total, 15,145,879 cases have been diagnosed in the country.

The number of people recovered totaled 13,677,668 – 90.3% of the total number infected with the new coronavirus.

There are still 3,706 deaths under investigation by health teams, data from yesterday. This is because there are cases in which the diagnosis about the cause only comes out after the patient’s death.

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