Pfizer Eyes Rapid Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out in Latin America After U.S. Go-Ahead
U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc is hoping to rapidly roll out its experimental COVID-19 vaccine around Latin America soon after it...
November 20, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Brazil Ranked World’s Leading Transgender Killer for 12th Consecutive Year
A week after Brazil broke the record for transgender people elected in municipal elections, new data from the Trans Murder...
November 20, 2020
India´s Bharat Biotech Offers Brazil Potential COVID-19 Vaccine
India’s Bharat Biotech this week offered Brazil a COVID-19 vaccine that is in late-stage clinical trials and a possible technology...
November 20, 2020
Who Secures the Most Doses in Race for Covid-19 Vaccine?
The race for vaccines against the novel coronavirus had begun long before they even entered the last phase of trials.
November 20, 2020
Belo Horizonte Physicians Issue Letter Alerting to ‘Surge’ of Covid Hospitalizations
The first wave of Covid-19 in Belo Horizonte has not yet been overcome, but a second peak of the disease...
November 20, 2020
Covid-19: Brazil Records 5.98 Million Cases and 168,000 Deaths (November 19th)
The novel coronavirus pandemic has already infected 5,981,767 people since its outbreak.
November 20, 2020
Homicides Increased Four Percent in First Nine Months in Brazil
The number of homicides in Brazil increased by four percent in the first nine months of the year, compared to...
November 20, 2020
COVID-19 Cases Soar in Brazil’s Largest Indigenous Reservation
The coronavirus has spread rapidly through the Yanomami indigenous reservation in northern Brazil and more than a third of its...
November 19, 2020
With Increased Covid-19 Deaths and Cases, Brazil Could Return to Social Isolation
After a slow drop in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths over the past two months, the country is...
November 19, 2020