“Today we have 6,276 new cases of the disease (9% more than the day before) and 449 deaths in the last day. A total of 5,466 fatal cases have been confirmed, ”TASS quoted him as saying.

The Ministry of Health specified that more than 34 thousand patients with COVID-19 recovered.

On April 17, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaru announced his desire to begin opening borders and resume trade as usual.