RIO DE JANEIRO, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Brazil registered 1,605 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 535,838, the health ministry said Tuesday.
As many as 45,022 new cases were detected, taking the total caseload to 19,151,993, the ministry said.
Brazil currently has the world's second-highest pandemic death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest caseload, after the United States and India.
The South American country, which is experiencing a new wave of infections with hospitals overwhelmed by patients, has a mortality rate of 255 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, said the ministry.
As of Monday, 115.5 million people in Brazil have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and over 30.9 million people have been fully vaccinated. Enditem
