The latest Covid-19 update by the Health Ministry shows that Brazil has 7,910 confirmed infections and 299 deaths. Over the past 24 hours, 58 Covid-19 deaths were recorded — a 24-percent increase from Wednesday. The country’s most populated state São Paulo is the source of most infections and deaths — 3,506 and 188, respectively.
Worldwide, the number of coronavirus infections has topped 1 million, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), of the Johns Hopkins University. Deaths have passed 50,000.