Xinhua
29 Jul 2021, 11:14 GMT+10
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Brazil registered 1,344 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 553,179, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the total caseload rose to 19,797,086 after 48,013 new cases were detected.
Brazil currently has the world's second-highest pandemic death toll after the United States, and the third-largest caseload after the United States and India.
The South American country is experiencing a new wave of infections, which has overwhelmed hospitals, said the ministry.
As of Tuesday, 136 million people in Brazil have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, with 38.7 million people fully vaccinated.
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