Brazil nears 4 million coronavirus cases, death toll tops 122,000

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Brazil has reported 42,659 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 1,215 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said.

Brazil has registered 3,950,931 cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll from Covid-19 has risen to 122,596, according to ministry data, in the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak outside the United States.

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