Brasilia, Jun 20, 2021, SPA -- The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced yesterday the registration of 82,288 new infections with coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to nearly 17.9 million cases since the start of the pandemic. The ministry's data indicated that deaths from COVID-19 in the country exceeded the 500,000, after 2301 new deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours. --SPA 04:00 LOCAL TIME 01:00 GMT 0004 www.spa.gov.sa/w1573930