Brazil reports 3,417 confirmed cases of COVID-19
Brasilia/Xinhua/UNI: The Brazilian Health Ministry reported on Saturday that the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country has climbed from 2,915 to 3,417.
The death toll has risen from 77 to 92, representing a fatality rate of 2.7 percent, it said.
There have been 502 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours and 2,289 in the past week, with an 18-percent increase in the death toll.
The epidemiological curve shows that two cases were registered in the first week of the outbreak, 17 new cases in the second week, 102 in the third one, 1,007 in the fourth, and 2,289 in the fifth week.
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