Petrobras Says 261 Workers Have Coronavirus

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Brazil's state-run oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro has 261 workers, either staff or contractors, who are infected with the coronavirus, the company said in a statement late on Wednesday.

Last Friday, Petrobras, as the company is known, said it had 160 workers diagnosed with the virus. 


(Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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