“The number of confirmed cases has increased to 4,219,” TASS quoted Alomia.

It is noted that a total of 273 people died from the consequences of COVID-19 infection in the country.

It was previously reported that in Brazil the number of cases of coronavirus infection per day increased by 1089 and reached 20,727.

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic.