Brazil registers 1,074 more deaths from COVID-19

SAO PAULO, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- Brazil registered 1,074 deaths from the novel coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 194,949, the Ministry of Health said Thursday.

Meanwhile, tests detected 56,773 more positive cases, raising the nationwide tally to 7,675,973, it said.