Coronavirus

⚠️ UPDATE: 9,056 cases, 359 deaths

New data by the Health Ministry shows that Brazil has topped 9,000 Covid-19 cases, and has reached 359 deaths. Since yesterday, 60 deaths and 1,146 new cases have been recorded — both records.

Yesterday, the number of confirmed cases worldwide hit 1 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE). As of now, more than 58,000 people have died and 225,000 have recovered from the coronavirus.

Augusta Saraiva

Augusta is a Brazilian journalism student at Northwestern University

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