Milan Sime Martinic
Milan Sime Martinić is a writer, analyst, and award-winning international correspondent with scientific, economics, and political background covering a wide range of places including the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia on issues such as global political shifts, poverty, and the coronavirus pandemic. He is the author of the novel “Ironway: Watching over Benjamin Hill” and is currently compiling a comprehensive narrative report and analysis on the COVID global health crisis.
In-depth: New, More Contagious, More Deadly Covid-19 Strain Likely Source of Surge in Amazonas
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new variety of Covid-19 which seems to have developed in far-western Amazonas state is faster, stronger, and more...
São Paulo’s Edificio Copan Illustrates NYTimes’ Front Page - 2020: A Year Like No Other
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A year that will perhaps be remembered for centuries because of its uniqueness in interruption of the flow of...
Good Ventilation Is Important in Preventing COVID-19 Infection
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - While the end of the pandemic may be in sight, the virus is still infecting and killing people. COVID-19...
Today’s Total Eclipse of the Sun in South America Partially Visible from Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A perfect black void in place of the sun will mark a total eclipse of the sun that will...
Pfizer Announces Its Covid Vaccine Has 90 Percent Efficacy, Buoying Optimism
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - An announcement by Pfizer Monday that interim reports of its COVID-19 vaccine show a 90 percent efficacy made headlines...
Bolivian Wildlife Sanctuary in Desperate Search for Aerial Firefighting Help
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Just 186 miles (300 km) from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the province of Guarayos in Bolivia’s Santa...
Analysis: Can You Be Forced to Take a Vaccine? What Is Brazilian Law on Obligatory Vaccinations
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The COVID-19 vaccine ought to be obligatory for everyone, said São Paulo governor, João Doria, this week on a...
Edifício Copan: Plunge into Darkness Highlights its Role as Soul of São Paulo
08SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - The world’s largest residential building, São Paulo’s Edifício Copan was built to be the Rockefeller Center of the city, as...
The Mekong Basin Contains COVID-19 to Some of the World’s Lowest Casualties
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A memory of SARS/MERS, a population with a history of compliance with government orders, immediate and drastic reactions by...
Second COVID-19 Infection Claims Life of Bolivian Leader in Fight Against Pandemic
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The man who designed the strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Bolivia’s most populous region of Santa Cruz,...
Identifying Early COVID-19 Symptoms Can Predict Severity, Guide Proper Treatment
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The first five days of COVID-19 symptoms can predict both the severity of the disease and the treatment that...
CDC Now Says Coronavirus Can Infect People Through Surface Contact
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - In a marked departure from previous lukewarm notices on surface-to-person transmission, the United States Center for Disease Control and...
Guayaquil: The City That Beat COVID-19
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Slow rattling gasps mark the beginning of the end. The dry COVID cough. Then silence. Eyes wide open. Then...
Distrust, Fear, and Death: COVID-19 Overwhelms Amazonian Bolivia
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It started off so innocently – people safely secure in their homes. Bolivia had just undergone a revolution that...