Live COVID-19 updates: Brazil's COVID-19 deaths top 57,000
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BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil on Saturday reported at least 1,109 daily deaths of COVID-19, raising its death toll to 57,070.
In the last 24 hours, 38,693 new cases were reported, bringing the national count to 1,313,667, the Brazilian Health Ministry said in its daily report.
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NEW DELHI -- India's federal health ministry Sunday morning said 410 new deaths due to COVID-19, besides fresh 19,906 positive cases, were reported during the past 24 hours across the country, taking the number of deaths to 16,095 and total cases to 528,859.
This is the biggest single day spike in terms of new COVID-19 cases in the country so far.
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LIMA -- The Peruvian Health Ministry reported Saturday 3,625 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the national tally to 275,989 with a total of 9,135 deaths.
A total of 10,762 people are still hospitalized, including 1,169 in intensive care units, according to the ministry.
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CAPE TOWN -- South Africa on Saturday reported 7,210 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily surge since the disease broke out in early March.
With the new cases, the total number of confirmed cases in the country has risen to 131,800, the Health Department said in its daily report.
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PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia on Sunday confirmed two new imported COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 141, according to a Health Ministry's press statement.
The latest cases are two Cambodian males, aged 15 and 23 years old, the statement said, adding that both traveled to Cambodia from Malaysia via a direct flight on Friday.
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BEIJING -- Chinese health authority said Sunday it received reports of 17 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland Saturday, including 14 domestically transmitted and three imported ones.
All the domestically transmitted cases were reported in Beijing, the National Health Commission said in its daily report. Enditem
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