Brazil’s Postal Service Workers Announce Nationwide Strike
The National Federation of Workers in Post and Similar Companies (FENTECT) resolved to strike as of Monday, August 17th. According...
August 18, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
For 52 Percent of Brazilians, Worst of Covid-19 Crisis Has Passed – August Poll
The worst moment of the crisis caused by the coronavirus in the country has passed, according to 52 percent of...
August 18, 2020
Covid-19: Johnson & Johnson to Conduct Vaccine Trials in Brazil
The National Technical Committee on Biosafety - CTNBio has just approved the clinical protocol, submitted by Janssen, Johnson & Johnson's...
August 18, 2020
Covid-19: Brazil Counts 108,500 Deaths, 3.35 Million Cumulative Cases (August 17th)
Brazil has now recorded 108,536 deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic. The number was released during the Ministry of Health's...
August 18, 2020
University of São Paulo Researcher: Covid-19 Spray Vaccine May Arrive in 2021
A research group from the School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo (USP) is excited...
August 17, 2020
Brazilians Carefully Return to Pleasure of Traveling
Remaining at home, the basic rule for containing the novel coronavirus, has cut people off from one of their greatest...
August 17, 2020
Ten-year-old Pregnant Girl, Denied Abortion in Espírito Santo, Travels to Other State
The 10-year-old child, pregnant after being raped by her uncle, was denied an abortion by Cassiano Antônio Moraes University Hospital...
August 17, 2020
Eighty-nine Percent of Brazilians Want Covid-19 Vaccination, When Available
Amid trials and a race to produce vaccines against the novel coronavirus, nine out of ten Brazilians say they intend...
August 17, 2020Brazil: Rapid Increase in New Pesticide Registrations during Bolsonaro Administration
Brazil has seen an upsurge in new pesticide registrations under the administration of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro - Larissa Bombardi,...
August 17, 2020