It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
It is specified that in the country over the past 24 hours, 16,409 cases of coronavirus have been registered, as a result of which the total number of cases has reached 514,849.
The number of deaths due to COVID-19 per day increased by 408 and reached 29,314.
In total, 206 555 people were cured of coronavirus in the country.
Earlier, American leader Donald Trump decided to suspend entry into the United States for foreigners who have visited Brazil over the past 14 days.
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.