Brazil has seen more than 260,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last week, according to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
On Monday, the ministry registered 20,286 new cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 1,884,967.
261,683 of those cases came from the past seven days.
The death toll across the country is 72,833.
The President tests positive: Among the new cases registered in the last week was the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who announced that he tested positive for the virus on Tuesday.
Bolsonaro will undergo another Covid-19 test this week, the presidential official doctor told CNN Brasil, a CNN affiliate, on Monday, reporting that it was “fine.”
The president also announced that day that he had taken hydroxychloroquine on the advice of his medical team, and then posted a video on his official Facebook page showing that he was taking what he said was a third dose of the drug.
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