China News Service, March 17th. According to Agence France-Presse, Brazil's first case of neo-pneumococcal pneumonia deaths. Local officials said on the 17th that a 62-year-old man in Sao Paulo, Brazil, died of the new crown pneumonia virus, the first death in a South American country.
According to reports, the man died on the 16th, but the authorities confirmed the new crown pneumonia virus as the cause of his death on the 17th.
Officials from the Brazilian Ministry of Health stated that as of 16:00 local time, 234 cases of new coronary pneumonia were confirmed nationwide and 2,064 suspected cases.
In Brazil's 26 states and 1 federal district, confirmed cases have occurred in 15 states and federal districts. Of all the confirmed cases, 128 were imported cases, 80 were locally transmitted cases, and 26 were community transmitted cases. The average age of patients was 40 years, and 18 patients were currently hospitalized.