Brazil's Covid-19 death toll tops 185,000
Dec 19, 2020
Brasilia [Brazil], December 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil's Covid-19 death toll rose to 185,650 on Friday after 823 more patients died from the disease in the previous 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said.
In the same period, tests detected 52,544 cases of infection, raising the total caseload to 7,162,978 since the start of the outbreak in Brazil on February 26.
The federal government published a resolution in the Government Gazette announcing that, as of December 30, both Brazilians and foreigners arriving at airports must be able to present negative results of a COVID-19 test. Land and coastal borders will remain closed. (ANI/Xinhua)
