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Brazil's COVID response cost thousands of lives, says humanitarian group

Reuters
Posted at Apr 16 06:47 AM

Brazil's COVID-19 outbreak is the deadliest in the world after the United States and is currently leading in average daily mortalities. 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 »

'Stop whining', Bolsonaro tells Brazilians after record COVID-19 deaths

Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito, Reuters
Posted at Mar 05 07:40 AM

BRASILIA - After two straight days of record COVID-19 deaths in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday told Brazilians to stop "whining" and move on, in his latest remarks attacking distancing measures and downplaying the gravity of the pandemic. Read more »

Brazil governors to buy vaccines directly due to slow federal rollout

Reuters
Posted at Mar 03 08:33 AM

BRASILIA - Brazilian state governors scrambling to secure COVID-19 vaccines said on Tuesday they are getting together to bypass President Jair Bolsonaro's government and buy shots directly because of delays in the federal inoculation program. 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 »

Bolsonaro seeks Israeli anti-COVID nasal spray for Brazil

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 18 01:37 PM

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said his government would seek emergency use authorization for an Israeli-developed nasal spray against COVID-19 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "miracle" treatment. Read more »

COVID-19 not enough to impeach Bolsonaro, Brazil's likely lower house head says

Reuters
Posted at Jan 28 06:49 AM

The Brazilian lawmaker who President Jair Bolsonaro is backing to lead the lower house of Congress said on Wednesday that the country's coronavirus pandemic should not be politicized and was not a good enough reason to impeach the right-wing leader. Read more »

Raging virus, few shots. How Brazil missed its chance to secure COVID-19 vaccines

Gabriel Stargardter, Reuters
Posted at Jan 27 08:09 PM

The country's principle strategy - to manufacture 100 million doses of the AstraZeneca PLC vaccine locally - has been plagued by repeated delays. That effort isn't expected to yield a finished product until March at the earliest.    Read more »

'Get out Bolsonaro!' say ex-supporters in Brazil as COVID-19, vaccines weigh

Gabriel Stargardter, Reuters
Posted at Jan 25 06:46 AM

Despite repeatedly denying the severity of the pandemic and overseeing a response that has blighted Brazil with the world's second highest number of COVID-19 fatalities after the United States, Bolsonaro ended 2020 riding high in the polls, buoyed by a generous coronavirus support package.   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 »

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 »

'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 »

Brazil's Bolsonaro says he will not take coronavirus vaccine

Reuters
Posted at Nov 27 10:47 AM

BRASILIA - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday evening that he will not take a coronavirus vaccine, the latest in a series of statements he has made expressing skepticism toward coronavirus vaccination programs. Read more »

Bolsonaro's eldest son, a senator, faces graft, money laundering charges

Ernesto Londoño, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 05 07:07 AM

Investigators say that the president’s son ran a scheme known as rachadinha, in which elected officials pocket part of the salary of legislative aides who accept employment on the condition of kicking back part of their pay. The tactic is common in the lower rungs of politics in Brazil. Read more »