Brazil's ministry of Health said that the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the country has increased by 73,380 within the past 24 hours, reaching 15,003,563 cases.
According to the ministry, the death toll has risen by 2,550 to 416,949 within the same period of time.
Brazil comes third in terms of the number of cases after the United States and India, as well as second in terms of fatalities following the United States.
