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Global vaccine campaign gains pace as Brazil approves jabs

Simon Morgan with Agence France-Presse bureaus
Posted at Jan 18 06:57 AM

The global COVID-19 vaccination drive gained pace Sunday as India pushed on with its massive campaign and Brazil approved its first jabs, while European authorities sought to allay concerns about delays in supplies.  Read more »

Brazil researchers report more modest 50.4% efficacy for China's CoronaVac

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 03:14 AM

Piecemeal disclosure from global studies of the vaccine, called CoronaVac, have added to concerns that immunizations developed by Chinese producers are not subject to the same public scrutiny as US and European alternatives. Read more »

Sinovac's vaccine efficacy less than 60pct in Brazil trial -report

Reuters
Posted at Jan 12 06:29 AM

The coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech showed a general efficacy of less than 60% in its late-stage trial in Brazil, a news website reported on Monday, citing two people who seen the results. Read more »

Japan confirms new coronavirus variant in arrivals from Brazil

Kyodo News
Posted at Jan 10 09:55 PM

Four people who arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport from Brazil have been found to be infected with a new variant of the novel coronavirus, officials said Sunday, amid a resurgence of infections in Japan. Read more »

Brazil passes 200,000 COVID-19 deaths amid record jump in cases

Reuters
Posted at Jan 08 06:33 AM

BRASILIA - Brazil has registered more than 200,000 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, underlining the tragic scale of the outbreak in the country with the world's second highest death toll, as the virus roars back to life. Read more »

Giant vulva statue fuels gender debate in Brazil

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 06 09:53 AM

SAO PAULO - An enormous bright-red vagina sculpture on a mountain in northeast Brazil is intended to inspire intercourse -- not the sexual kind but rather a dialogue on gender issues, particularly poignant under the conservative government of President Jair Bolsonaro. Read more »

Football: Reports of extravagant party dent Neymar's improving image

Louis GENOT, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 30 06:00 PM

Rumors of a giant year-end party organized by Neymar in Brazil in the midst of the pandemic have revived his image as an eternal spoiled child.  Read more »

Football: Neymar in new controversy over New Year party rumors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 29 10:44 AM

Brazil's star footballer Neymar is at the center of a new controversy. Read more »

Brazil vice president tests positive for coronavirus; 344 new deaths recorded

Reuters
Posted at Dec 28 09:49 AM

Hamilton Mourão, Brazil's vice president, has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Sunday, when the country registered 344 new COVID-19 deaths. Read more »

Colombian taxi driver and canine co-pilot spread Christmas cheer

Herbert Villarraga, Reuters
Posted at Dec 25 06:59 AM

BOGOTA - People looking for a bit of Christmas merriment in the Colombian capital might find it in an unexpected place: the front seat of a taxi, in the form of a costumed canine co-pilot. Read more »

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine over 50% effective in Brazil tests, reports say

Reuters
Posted at Dec 24 04:21 AM

SAO PAULO - Sinovac Biotech's vaccine against COVID-19 is over 50% effective in late-stage trials, newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reported on Wednesday, adding that the Chinese company had asked the Brazilian institute running tests to wait up to 15 days before publishing their full results. Read more »

Rio mayor arrested in corruption probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 23 11:25 AM

Rio de Janeiro mayor Marcelo Crivella was arrested on Tuesday and ordered held in custody as part of a corruption investigation just 9 days before the end of his term in office. Read more »

China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine proves effective in Brazil trials -report

Reuters
Posted at Dec 22 02:24 PM

Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd's COVID-19 vaccine has shown to be effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people involved in the vaccine's development. Read more »

Paano kung maging buwaya ka? Bolsonaro ng Brazil may duda sa COVID vaccine

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 19 05:35 AM

Kahit pa nagpositibo siya sa COVID-19, iginiit ni Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro na hinding-hindi siya magpapabakuna.    Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: December 16, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 17 12:14 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Keeping Santa safe inside a bubble

Adriano Machado, Reuters
Posted at Dec 16 02:59 PM

Abilio da Cruz Pinto, 77, dressed as a Santa Claus inside a plastic bubble, greets a child in a shopping mall amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil on Tuesday. Read more »

'Playing with lives': Brazil's COVID vaccine plan is mired in chaos

Ernesto Londoño, Manuela Andreoni and Letícia Casado, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 15 07:34 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO — As countries rushed their preparations to inoculate citizens against the coronavirus, Brazil, with its world-renowned immunization program and a robust pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity, should have been at a significant advantage. Read more »

Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness

Alberto Peña, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 15 04:58 AM

PUCON, Chile - A solar eclipse that lasted around two minutes plunged southern Chile and Argentina into darkness on Monday. Read more »

Black Jesus born in burnt Amazon at Brazil church manger

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 13 10:34 AM

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest, a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.   Read more »

Brazil rolls out COVID-19 vaccination plan

Sabrina Valle, Reuters
Posted at Dec 13 09:44 AM

The Brazilian government unveiled its long-awaited national vaccination plan against COVID-19 on Saturday with an initial goal of vaccinating 51 million people, or about one-fourth of the population, in the first half of 2021.   Read more »