Over One Million People Apply for Covid-19 Vaccine Trials In São Paulo
Over one million people have applied to volunteer for the Coronavac trials, a Chinese vaccine that has been tested in...
July 29, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
With R$600 Aid, Extreme Poverty in Brazil Is Lowest in 44 Years, Says FGV
The R$600 (US$120) emergency aid distribution to half of the Brazilian population made the country record its lowest extreme poverty...
July 29, 2020
Covid-19: Brazil Records Cumulative 88,500 Deaths and 2.48 Million Cases (July 28th)
The Ministry of Health's daily update shows that 88,539 deaths have already occurred in Brazil as a result of the...
July 29, 2020
Racetrack Project Could End One of Last Few Flat Stretches of Rio’s Atlantic Forest
On August 7th a "Virtual Public Hearing" of the Rio de Janeiro State Environmental Control Commission (CECA), a body of...
July 28, 2020
Oil Pipeline Rupture in Ecuador’s Amazon Region Causes Environmental Disaster
At the start of April, one of the most devastating oil disasters to affect the country in the past 15...
July 28, 2020
Brazil’s Fiocruz Research Center Expects Coronavirus Vaccine from February 2021
Fiocruz researchers are betting on initial vaccination against Covid-19 in February 2021 for a specific public. From then on, the...
July 28, 2020
Covid-19: Brazil Records 614 Deaths and 23,284 New Cases in 24 Hours (July 27th)
The Ministry of Health's bulletin reveals that 614 deaths and a further 23,284 novel coronavirus infections were recorded between Sunday...
July 28, 2020
Latin American Coronavirus Cases Now Surpass Those of US and Canada Together
Cases of coronavirus in Latin America have exceeded the total combined infections in the United States and Canada for the...
July 27, 2020
Drug Traffickers Create ‘Complexo de Israel’ Joining Five Favelas in Rio’s North Zone
Amid the pandemic, a drug trafficker's gang is invading communities in the city's Northern Zone and creating a new favela...
July 27, 2020