SAO PAULO, Oct 8 (NNN-CMA) – Brazil said, 31,553 COVID-19 cases were reported over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total to 5,000,694. And 734 more patients died of the disease, raising the national death toll to 148,228.
On Feb 26, Brazil reported its first case and also the first in Latin America, in the city of Sao Paulo, South America’s largest city.
Brazil has the world’s second-highest death toll, after the United States, and is the third worst hit by the pandemic after the United States and India.
The state of Sao Paulo, the epicentre of the national epidemic with 36,669 deaths and 1,016,755 cases, reopened schools yesterday, with social distancing rules in place.
The state government announced that it will carry out tests starting next week, on 19,300 people within the educational system in 20 cities, to track the virus as in-person classes begin.
More than 36 million cases were reported worldwide as of 0100 GMT, Oct 8, according to data compiled by the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
