Brazil's Health Ministry registered 14,919 new confirmed cases in the prior 24 hours, taking the total to 233,142, behind the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom. Brazil has done just a fraction of the testing seen in those three countries. Brazil had processed nearly 338,000 novel coronavirus tests in official labs by the beginning of the week, according to the Health Ministry. By contrast, Italy and Spain have each run some 1.9 million official diagnostic tests for the virus. Brazil's Health Ministry on Saturday also reported 816 new deaths related to the virus, bringing the total to 15,633.

Source: bd News24 May 17, 2020 00:11 UTC