Brazil reports 46,860 additional coronavirus cases, 990 deaths

Brazil registered 46,860 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 990 additional deaths, the Health Ministry said on Friday.

The nation has now registered 1,274,974 total confirmed COVID-19 cases and 55,961 deaths.

Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous state, has at least 258,508 confirmed coronavirus cases and at least 13,966 people died from the virus, according to the State Health Secretary.