Third Brazil Cabinet Minister with COVID-19 Touts Unproven Drug Cocktail
(Reuters) Lorenzoni, a close ally of President Jair Bolsonaro, credited relatively mild symptoms to an anti-malarial drug touted by the...
July 20, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Brazil Records Its Most Deadly Sunday for Covid-19 on July 19th
Brazil has recorded the deadliest Sunday for Covid-19 in 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. There...
July 20, 2020
Small Towns in São Paulo State Still Register No Covid-19 Cases
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – Almost 150 days after the first case of Covid-19 was registered in Brazil, five small towns...
July 20, 2020
The Endless Confinement of Merchant Seamen Due to Coronavirus
Tejasvi Duseja can no longer bear it: the last time this Indian sailor set foot on land was five months...
July 20, 2020
What Is The True Coronavirus Mortality Rate? No One Knows
Humankind has known about the novel coronavirus for just over seven months, but to this day there is no consensus...
July 20, 2020
Pro-Bolsonaro Rally Features Maskless Demonstrators
As the Federal District faces an increase in the number of deaths from the novel coronavirus, dozens of President Jair...
July 20, 2020
São Paulo State Counts Over 19,000 Deaths, 415,000 Cases by Covid-19 (July 19th)
On Sunday, July 19th, the State of São Paulo reached a total of 19,732 deaths and 415,049,000 confirmed cases of...
July 20, 2020
Brazil Records 2,074,860 People Infected With Novel Coronavirus (July 18th)
The Ministry of Health's epidemiological bulletin, released on Saturday, July 18th, records 2,074,860 registered cases of people infected with the...
July 19, 2020
Brazil Could Have Covid-19 Vaccine for Priority Groups in First Quarter of 2021
Ricardo Palacios, Medical Director of Clinical Research at the Butantan Institute, had never seen so much interest in his and...
July 19, 2020