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Brazil recorded 19,438 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours and 699 deaths, the country's health ministry said on Friday.

Brazil has registered more than 21 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 593,663, according to ministry data, Reuters reports.