According to data from the Ministry of Health updated this Thursday, 14, Brazil passed the 200 thousand mark infected by the new coronavirus. Altogether, the number of confirmed cases of covid-19 in the country is 202,918, with a record of 13,944 new records between this Wednesday, 13, and Thursday, 14.
The number of deaths due to the new coronavirus in the country rose from 13,149 to 13,993, an increase of 844 records in the last 24 hours.
The numbers are growing. This Wednesday, 13, Brazil overtook France in the total number of confirmed cases of covid-19 and became the 6th country in the world with the most accumulated cases of the disease, according to a survey by Johns Hopkins University. On Tuesday, Brazil had already surpassed Germany in this ranking.