Vice President Hamilton Mourão
BRASILIA, Dec 30 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourao is recovering well after being diagnosed with COVID-19, his press office said.
“The Vice President of the Republic Hamilton Mourao is in good health. He has no fever, only minor body aches, and is recovering well,” the office said in a statement.
Mourao is in isolation at Jabiru Palace, his official residence in Brasilia.
He was examined on Sunday after having a slight fever, body aches and a headache.
So far, a total of 16 high-ranking Brazilian officials have been tested positive for COVID-19.
Brazil registered 1,111 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest daily count fatalities since Oct. 3, when 1,307 people died, the Health Ministry said Tuesday.
The death toll from COVID-19 nationwide has thus amounted to 192,681.
Meanwhile, 58,718 new cases were detected in the last 24 hours, the highest daily tally since Dec. 17, bringing the nationwide caseload to 7,563,551.
The South American country has the third-largest COVID-19 outbreak in the world, after the United States and India, and the second-highest death toll.
The southeast Sao Paulo State, the most populated in the country, is the hardest hit region with 1,440,229 cases and 46,195 deaths, followed by neighboring Rio de Janeiro with 426,259 cases and 25,078 deaths.
Amid surging COVID-19 cases in Manaus, capital of northern Amazonas State and one of the epicenters of the outbreak, at least two local hospitals had set up tents outside their facilities to test new patients arriving with symptoms of COVID-19. — NNN-XINHUA
