Information released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health on the same day added 18,508 new cases to the country, an increase of 6.3% from the previous day, bringing the total to 310,087 cases. Of those, 164,080 were being treated and 125,960 were recovering.

The state of Sao Paulo remains the most heavily affected region in Brazil with 5,363 deaths, followed by the states of Rio de Janeiro and Ceara with 3,237 and 1,900 deaths respectively. 

With the speed of spreading exponentially, Brazil has become the third most infected country in the world, after the US and Russia. Meanwhile, the Brazilian leadership is not "on the front line" in dealing with the disease. Within a month, Health Ministers Nelson Teich and Luiz Henrique Mandetta resigned due to disagreements with President Jair Bolsonaro, who prioritized economic activities over social isolation measures to prevent them. Disease.

On the same day, the Ministry of Health announced that Iraq had recorded 153 new cases, the highest level in a day, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 3,877 cases. The Vietnam News Agency correspondent in the Middle East quoted the ministry’s statement as saying that new cases had been recorded after 6,151 test kits had been used across Iraq for 24 hours a day, bringing the number of tests to 169,760 tests since disease outbreak. To date, Iraq has had 140 deaths from COVID-19, while 2,483 have recovered. Since May 20, Iraq has imposed a curfew in six districts in Baghdad for two weeks to curb the spread of the disease.

Meanwhile, a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Cairo said Egypt’s Ministry of Health recorded 774 more cases on May 21, the highest increase recorded in a day since the first case was detected. mid February. Currently the total number of infections in this North African country is 15,003 cases. There are 16 more new deaths, bringing the total to 696 deaths. Meanwhile, an additional 223 patients were completely recovered and discharged.