Rio de Janeiro, September 03, 2021, SPA -- Brazil recorded 26,280 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 764 deaths from COVID-19, the Brazilian Health Ministry said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Brazil has registered more than 20 million cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 581,914, according to ministry data. --SPA 11:09 LOCAL TIME 08:09 GMT 0004 www.spa.gov.sa/w1613077