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Reuters
Reuters
Health

Brazil registers almost 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday

FILE PHOTO: A man walks next to graffiti depicting a cleaner in protective gear spraying viruses with the face of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 7, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

Brazil has registered 964 additional COVID-19 deaths over the last 24 hours and 42,889 new cases, the nation's health ministry said on Tuesday.

The South American country has now registered 182,799 total coronavirus deaths and 6,970,034 total confirmed cases.

(Reporting by Gram Slattery; Editing by Chris Reese)

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