BRASILIA, April 21 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil reported 69,381 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 14,043,076.
The health ministry said that 3,321 more deaths were registered, raising national death toll to 378,003.
Brazil has the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll, after the United States, and has the third-largest caseload, after the United States and India. Since March, it has reported the highest average daily death tolls worldwide.
Faced with a new wave of infections that began in February, Brazilian states and cities have reimposed lockdowns and declared nighttime curfews.
ARGENTINA reported more than 29,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, along with a record occupation of intensive care units in the capital Buenos Aires and the greater metropolitan area.
According to the Ministry of Health, tests detected 29,145 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, with 61.79 percent of them in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, bringing the nationwide tally to 2,743,620.
Meanwhile, 316 more people died of the disease, raising the pandemic death toll to 59,792.
Some 6,510,615 people in Argentina have been vaccinated, including 821,214 people who have received both doses.
Also on Tuesday, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, and Argentine pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Richmond announced that Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to begin producing the Sputnik V vaccine. — NNN-XINHUA