Brazil reports 468 COVID deaths in 24 hours

Brazil had 13,466 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 468 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The South American country has now registered 21,459,117 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 597,723 according to ministry data, in the world's second-deadliest outbreak, after the United States.

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