Iran Press/ America: The Omicron variant triggered a new wave of infections in the South American country, which began in last December.
Brazil has now registered 25,348,797 confirmed cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 626,854.
COVID-19 has infected more than 375M people and killed over 5.6M worldwide.
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