Brazil's COVID-19 death toll tops 132,000
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 132,000 after 381 more patients died of the COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of fatalities to 132,006, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.

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Soldiers from the 4th Military Region of the Brazilian Armed Forces take part in the cleaning and disinfection of the external area of the Municipal Market in the Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil on August 18, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: AFP)

In the same period, tests detected 15,155 new cases of infection, bringing the total caseload since the start of the outbreak here to 4,345,610.

The average of daily deaths caused by the pandemic has fallen. In the past seven days, there was an average of 711 daily deaths, an 18 percent reduction.

As of Saturday, only three of Brazil's 27 states were seeing a rise in deaths, while 10 had stable fatality rates and 14 saw a decline in deaths.

The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous in Brazil, is the most affected by the virus, with 893,349 cases of infection and 32,642 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 242,810 cases and 17,003 deaths.