The South American country has now registered 22,012,150cases since the pandemic began, while the official death tollhas risen to 612,587, according to ministry data, in the world'sthird-worst outbreak outside the United States and India and itssecond-deadliest.
As vaccination advances, the rolling 14-day average of COVIDdeaths has fallen to 228 a day, the lowest since April 26, 2020,which was one and a half months after the pandemic's firstfatality in Brazil. That compares with a toll of almost 3,000deaths a day in Brazil at the pandemic's peak in April of thisyear.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle in BrasiliaEditing by Matthew Lewis) ((anthony.boadle@thomsonreuters.com; +55 61 98204-1110 ;Reuters Messaging: