Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes tested positive for COVID-19, and is reported to be asymptomatic and under quarantine for medical observation, the court said on Tuesday.

Moraes was elected to the Supreme Court in 2017 for a 27-year term.

Brazil reported 25,012 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 201 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The country has registered 5,700,044 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 162,829, according to ministry data. It is the world's second most fatal outbreak after the United States.