Brazil reported fresh 51,050 corona cases and 1,308 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours. With the addition of these cases, the total number of cases reach 10,081,676.
According to the Health Ministry, the death count in the country reaches to 244,765 which is the world's second-largest COVID-19 death toll after the United States. Sao Paulo state, a nationwide epicentre of the pandemic, has seen 1,960,564 cases and 57,499 deaths since the country's first case was detected in the state on Feb. 26, 2020.
The government on Friday expanded restrictions in interior cities, such as Barretos and Presidente Prudente, due to resurging cases. The city of Araraquara is in a total lockdown due to increased hospitalizations and the detection of 12 community-transmitted cases of an Amazon variant, which is much more contagious, according to specialists.
Meanwhile, India now has 10,977,387 infections and 156,212 people have succumbed to the coronavirus disease so far, the health ministry’s dashboard showed at 8am.
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