Brazil's COVID death toll tops 500K

Brazil surpassed half a million COVID-19 deaths after registering 2,301 more fatalities from the fatal disease in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said. With the national death toll reaching 500,800, Brazil has become the second country in the world to record more than half a million pandemic deaths, after the US, reports Xinhua news agency. According to the Ministry, a total of 82,288 new infections were detected during the past 24 hours, raising the total caseload to 17,883,750, the world's third largest following the US and India. The South American country, which is experiencing a new wave of infections with hospitals overwhelmed by patients, has a mortality rate of 238.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, said the Ministry. (IANS)

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