{"id":69716,"date":"2020-04-12T15:40:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=69716"},"modified":"2020-04-12T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T07:40:26","slug":"covid-19-1124-deaths-reported-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=69716","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: 1,124 deaths reported in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SAO PAULO, April 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Brazilian Ministry of Health said Saturday that the country registered 68 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil has the highest number of deaths and cases in Latin America, with a mortality rate of 5.4 percent, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last few hours, 1,089 new cases have been registered, bringing the count to 20,727.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The infections are concentrated in Sao Paulo with 8,419 cases and 560 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, Ceara, Amazonas, and Pernambuco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazilian authorities confirmed the first case on Feb 26 and the first death on March 17. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO, April 12 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Brazilian Ministry of Health said Saturday that the country registered 68 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,124. Brazil has the highest number of deaths and cases in Latin America, with a mortality rate of 5.4 percent, according to the ministry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69716"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}