Brazil has 52,911 coronavirus cases and 2,378 COVID deaths in 24 hours

BRASILIA — Brazil has had 52,911 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 2,378 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The South American country has now registered 17,037,129 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 476,792, according to ministry data, in the world’s third worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second deadliest.