Via Jornal do Brasil: Brasil registra 816 novas mortes e passa de 15 mil óbitos por COVID-19. The Google translation and then another link:
This Saturday (16), Brazil registered 816 new deaths and reached 15,633 deaths by COVID-19.
The new balance sheet by the Ministry of Health also points out that Brazil has 233,142 confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus. In the last 24 hours alone, 14,919 cases were confirmed. On Friday (15), Brazil recorded 218,223 cases and 14,817 deaths caused by COVID-19.
The most affected state in Brazil is São Paulo, which on Saturday (16), has 61,183 cases of the disease and 4,688 deaths. The state today has more deaths registered by COVID-19 than China, the first focus of the pandemic.
At the time of the release of the new data, Brazil became the 4th country in the world in number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, behind only the United States, Spain and Russia.
In number of deaths, Brazil remains the 6th country with the most deaths caused by the disease, behind the USA, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and France.
Worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University data, 4,626,632 cases of the disease have been confirmed, with 311,363 deaths caused by COVID-19.
Covidly.com has a state-by-state breakdown of the situation in Brazil.
