Brazil reports 578 more COVID-19 deaths
Jul 27, 2021
Rio De Janerio (Brazil), July 27: Brazil registered 578 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 550,502, the health ministry said on Monday.
Meanwhile, the total caseload rose to 19,707,662 after 18,999 new cases were detected.
Brazil currently has the world's second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States, and the third-largest caseload after the United States and India.
The South American country is experiencing a new wave of infections, which has overwhelmed hospitals, said the ministry.
As of Sunday, over 133.02 million people in Brazil have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, with close to 37.54 million people fully vaccinated.
Source: Xinhua
