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'So much joy': Brazil holds first carnival since COVID

Joshua Howat Berger, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 23 05:39 PM

Rio de Janeiro's carnival, a glittering, sequin-studded festival of the flesh, exploded back to life Friday with the first famed samba school parades since Covid-19 hit Brazil. Read more »

Brazil records 115,228 COVID cases in 1 day as pandemic third wave breaks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 24 03:55 PM

SAO PAULO - Brazil set a new record for Covid-19 infections on Wednesday, with 115,228 new cases identified within 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, confirming the arrival of a third wave of the pandemic.  Read more »

Brazil COVID death toll surpasses 450,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 26 07:34 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's Covid-19 death toll surpassed 450,000 on Tuesday, as delays plague the hard-hit country's vaccine rollout and epidemiologists warned a brutal new surge of the virus could be coming. Read more »

Brazil health agency calls for halt to AstraZeneca vaccine for pregnant women

Reuters
Posted at May 11 07:24 PM

SAO PAULO - Brazilian health regulator Anvisa recommended the immediate suspension of the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in pregnant women, according to a statement late on Monday. Read more »

Brazil hits record COVID-19 death toll in April

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 25 07:45 AM

Brazil marked a grim milestone Saturday, as April became the deadliest month yet in the country's COVID-19 epidemic, authorities said. Read more »

Chinese vaccine found 50.7 percent effective against Brazil variant

Reuters
Posted at Apr 12 08:39 AM

SAO PAULO - Brazil on Sunday recorded 1,803 new COVID-19 deaths, as a large study found that a Chinese vaccine that has become the linchpin in the country's vaccination campaign is 50.7% effective against the infectious new homegrown variant known as P1. Read more »

Brazil records 2,616 COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, more than 71,000 cases

Reuters
Posted at Apr 11 10:51 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Saturday recorded 2,616 new COVID-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said. Read more »

Brazil detects first case of S. African variant, grave shortage looms as death toll soars

Eduardo Simões and Pedro Fonseca, Reuters
Updated as of Apr 08 08:56 AM

Brazil has recorded its first confirmed case of the highly contagious coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, a fresh danger sign for a country already ravaged by the world's worst daily death toll and scrambling to make space for burials. Read more »

The deadliest month: COVID kills 66,500 people in Brazil in March

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 06:39 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Hard-hit Brazil's coronavirus death toll soared in March, its deadliest month yet in the pandemic, with 66,573 people killed by Covid-19, more than double the previous record. Read more »

In food-rich Brazil, people go hungry as pandemic rages

Rodrigo Almonacid, with Eugenia Logiuratto in Rio de Janeiro, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 31 08:20 AM

SAO PAULO - The lines of homeless and other needy people waiting for free meals in the streets of Brazil are growing longer as the Covid-19 pandemic rages out of control. Read more »

Brazil hits record 100,000 coronavirus cases in a day

Pedro Fonseca, Reuters
Posted at Mar 26 07:14 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil on Thursday registered a record 100,158 new coronavirus cases within 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, underlining the scale of a snowballing outbreak that is becoming a major political crisis for President Jair Bolsonaro. Read more »

Brazil passes 300,000 COVID-19 deaths

Pedro Fonseca, Reuters
Posted at Mar 25 06:42 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - As the number of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil passed 300,000 on Wednesday, President Jair Bolsonaro's fourth health minister used his first official day in the job to pledge a vaccination goal of 1 million shots a day to put the brakes on the snowballing crisis.   Read more »

For 1st time, Brazil records over 3,000 COVID deaths in one day

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 24 07:50 AM

BRASILIA - Brazil's daily Covid-19 death toll soared past 3,000 for the first time Tuesday as the hard-hit country struggled to contain a surge of cases that has pushed many hospitals to breaking point. Read more »

Bolsonaro opposes social distancing as Brazil sets record 90,000 COVID-19 cases

Reuters
Posted at Mar 18 08:10 AM

BRASILIA - Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said he was happy that supporters have been staging anti-social distancing protests, on the same day as the country registered more than 90,000 new COVID-19 cases for the first time. Read more »

Brazil approves Pfizer's COVID-19 shot, but has none to use

Reuters
Posted at Feb 23 10:54 PM

SAO PAULO - Brazil has fully approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE , its health regulator said on Tuesday, though a dispute over a supply deal means it has none to start an immunization program with. Read more »

Brazil passes 10 million COVID-19 cases amid new strain, stalling vaccinations

Pedro Fonseca, Reuters
Posted at Feb 19 06:17 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Thursday, as a new variant discovered in the Amazon threatens to further ravage a country where inoculations have been halted in many cities due to a lack of vaccines.   Read more »

Amazon coronavirus variant three times more contagious, says Brazil minister

Maria Carolina Marcello, Reuters
Posted at Feb 12 08:03 AM

BRASILIA - A coronavirus variant identified in the Brazilian Amazon may be three times more contagious but early analysis suggests vaccines are still effective against it, the country's health minister said on Thursday, without providing evidence for the claims. Read more »

Hospitals full, oxygen scarce, Brazil COVID-19 patient gets intensive care at home

Bruno Kelly, Reuters
Posted at Jan 22 09:26 PM

One man in the Brazilian jungle city of Manaus, facing packed hospitals and scarce oxygen in the public health system, has survived COVID-19 in a makeshift ward at home, complete with air tanks his family scrambled to find. 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 »

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 »