The updated numbers also reveal 1,262 new deaths, which raises the death toll to 31,199, the highest number of related obits in 24 hours since the pandemic started.
The report from the Health Ministry shows that 1,039 new deaths from COVID-19 have been confirmed in Brazil in the last 24 hours. Thus far, of the more than 391 thousand infected, 158,593 patients have recovered from the disease.
The Health Ministry’s daily report shows that the country had 807 news deaths from COVID-18 registered in the last 24 hours. Last week, the number of people who recovered from the disease went up 53 percent.