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May 23, 2020 Brazil overtook Russia in the number of new coronavirus cases yesterday after registering 20,803 new infections in one day and became the second country in the world most affected by the pandemic. The number of cases in Brazil today has reached 330,890, ranking only behind the United States, which has over 1.5 million infections, according to the budget released by the Ministry of Health and reflecting the growing progress of disease in the country.  

In the last 24 hours, this new strong leap forward of the consequences of the coronavirus in Brazil has characterized Latin America , which has officially become for the World Health Organization (WHO) a "new outbreak of the pandemic". In the region, 672,770 are infected today, of which 37,021 are dead. This is what emerges from a statistic elaborated by the Ansa on the basis of the known data of 34 between Latin American nations and territories.

There have been 1,299 coronavirus deaths in the United States in the past 24 hours . This is what emerges from the data of Johns Hopkins University. The cases in the United States exceeded 1.6 million - they are currently 1,601,251 - while the total deaths are 96,001.