Brasilia, Oct 22 (UNI) Brazil said its Novel Coronavirus death toll surpassed 155,000 after 566 more patients died of the Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, pushing the number of fatalities to 155,403.
According to the Ministry of Health, in the same period, tests detected 24,818 more cases of COVID-19 infection, raising the total caseload to 5,298,772 since the first case was detected Feb 26 in the state of Sao Paulo.
Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest outbreak, after the United States and India.
Sao Paulo, the epicenter of Brazil's epidemic, has seen 38,371 deaths and 1,073,261 cases of infection from Covid-19.
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