Covid-19: Brazil Counts 118,649 Deaths and 3.76 Million Cases (August 27th)
Brazil has reached 118,649 deaths due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to the Ministry of Health's daily update released...
August 28, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Homicide of Blacks Grows 11.5 Percent in 11 Years; That of Others Drops 13 Percent
In 2018, 75.7 percent of homicide victims in Brazil were black. In the historical context, between 2008 and 2018, the...
August 28, 2020
“I’d Rather Lose a Year than a Child”: The Debate on Returning to School in São Paulo
"If my son loses a year in school, it won't make a difference to him in the future. But if...
August 28, 2020
Gringo View: Is Now a Good Time to Write Your Own Obituary?
How many of us, stranded and isolated for the past months by the pandemic and unable to have normal contact...
August 27, 2020
Covid-19 Reinfection, the Great Pandemic Puzzle
The emergence of the first cases in which an individual was again infected with the coronavirus after overcoming the disease...
August 27, 2020
“Home Has Become the New Temple,” Says Mauro Jeckel of Spume.co Startup
Founded in 2014, Spume.co is a Brazilian startup specialized in big data and artificial intelligence for event forecasting.
August 27, 2020
FGV Study Shows Emergency Aid Lifted 13.1 Million Brazilians Out of Poverty
The number of people with a per capita income below half the minimum wage in the country fell by 13.1...
August 27, 2020
Brazil Counts 117,666 Deaths and 3.7 Million Cumulative Cases (August 26th)
Brazil has reached 117,666 deaths and 3,717,156 cumulative Covid-19 cases. The data were released yesterday, August 26th, by the Ministry...
August 27, 2020
NGO Study Exposes Extent of Racial Segregation in Well-off Rio Suburb Niteroi
Nutritionist Iris Motta, 46, and journalist Alessandro Conceição, 37, live in Niterói, a city 15 kilometers from the capital Rio...
August 26, 2020