Covid-19: Brazil Records Totals of 69,100 Deaths, 1.75 Million Cases (July 9th)
Brazil recorded 69,184 deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic. In the past 24 hours, 1,220 people who lost their lives...
July 10, 2020Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Brazil Records Over 1,100 Deaths for Second Consecutive Day (July 8th)
For the second consecutive day, Brazil recorded over a thousand deaths by Covid-19 in 24 hours.
July 9, 2020
Caixa Registers Emergency Aid App Flaws; Customers Complain Money Disappeared
Nubank and PicPay digital accounts customers have been claiming since Tuesday, July 7th, that money is missing from their accounts.
July 9, 2020
Bolsonaro Vetoes Bill Providing Indigenous with Drinking Water, Hygiene, Hospital Beds
President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a bill addressing social protection measures to prevent contagion and the spread of Covid-19 in indigenous...
July 9, 2020
Pandemic Will Require Distance Learning Until 2021, Says Brazilian Education Council
On Tuesday, July 7th, the National Education Council (CNE) passed an opinion with guidelines for the gradual return to in-person...
July 9, 2020
ANVISA Repeals Resolution Banning Blood Donation by Gay Men
On Wednesday, July 8th, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) revoked the decision restricting blood donation by male homosexuals.
July 9, 2020
Brazilian University Claims Discovery of Treatment That Cleared One Patient of HIV
Researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) conducted a global scale study with people infected with HIV and...
July 8, 2020
Brazil Joins Islamic Countries to Veto Sex Education in UN Girls’ Protection Project
In another round of the ideological plunge of national diplomacy, on Tuesday, July 7th, the government of Jair Bolsonaro called...
July 8, 2020
Venezuela Becomes Latin America’s Poorest Country
The Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) in Caracas released the report entitled "Poverty in its multiple dimensions", an analysis within...
July 8, 2020