Today, Brazil crossed the mark of one million novel Coronavirus infections becoming only the second nation with this many cases.

The only other nation with over million COVID-19 cases is the United States of America that has more than 2.2 million cases that is more than double of the second-placed nation on Coronavirus cases' table.

COVID-19 is still rampant in most countries across the globe. There have already been more than 463,000 fatalities due to the viral disease and overall more than 8.7 million people have been detected with the virus to this date.

Brazil, a country of 212 million people, has seen a massive surge of COVID cases in last month or so and has had 49,090 deaths due to the infection already. Total cases have reached 1,038,568 today.

The health ministry posted a record number of new COVID cases in the past 24 hours - more than 54,000. Also, there were more than 1,200 deaths for the fourth consecutive day. These are astounding figures but healthcare experts believe that the country is still weeks away from hitting its peak for COVID-19 cases.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been blamed by the masses for delayed response against novel Coronavirus spread. The government has also been criticized for lacking the testing capacity for the virus. Experts believe that the true figures are much greater than the ones currently reported.

World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the world that the pandemic is entering a "new and dangerous" phase as the cases keep on increasing mainly due to lifting of lockdown in most countries. Brazil isn't the only South American country battling COVID-19 as the virus has adversely affected its neighboring countries too. But Brazil is surely the current epicenter of COVID-19. Thus it's no secret that Brazil's road to recovery will be a long one.