RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil set a daily record on Wednesday for both confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus and related deaths, with 70,074 new cases and 1,595 fatalities, Health Ministry data showed.
Brazil has now registered more than 2.5 million confirmed cases of the virus and 90,134 deaths since the pandemic began, according to ministry data.
(Reporting by Pedro Fonseca and Jake Spring; Editing by Brad Haynes)
