Brazilian city Ipixuna do Pará decrees emergency after flood collapses highway
RIO DE JANEIRO BRAZIL - The municipality of Ipixuna do Pará (Pará state) declared an emergency situation after heavy rain...
February 17, 2021Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Bolsonaro’s gun sale increase decrees raise insecurity and issue may reach Supreme Court
President Jair Bolsonaro used Friday, the eve of a near-carnival in Brazil, to sign four decrees that further ease the...
February 16, 2021
Brazil’s transgender twins are world’s first to change sex, doctors say
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Two 19-year-old twins in Santa Catarina state achieved their dream of changing sex through surgery...
February 13, 2021
Brazil registers over 1,000 Covid-19 deaths for 4th straight day (February 12th)
Brazil has recorded over 1,000 daily deaths from covid-19 for the fourth straight day. In 24 hours, 1,204 new deaths...
February 13, 2021
Covid-19: Brazil to have at least 90 million vaccine doses by April
According to the count, 46 million doses of the CoronaVac - developed by Sinovac Life Science in partnership with the...
February 12, 2021
Indigenous leaders in Brazil warn of missionaries turning Amazon villages against vaccines
Medical teams working to immunize Brazil’s remote indigenous villages against the coronavirus have encountered fierce resistance in some communities where...
February 12, 2021
Brazil Chamber of Deputies passes bill criminalizing cutting in line for vaccination
The Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, February 11th, passed a bill that criminalizes jumping the queue for vaccination. The text...
February 11, 2021
Rio City Hall says vaccine stocks will last only until Saturday
The vaccination schedule in the city of Rio de Janeiro is in danger of being suspended due to a shortage...
February 11, 2021
Congress’s position on 5-day vaccince approval is “criminal” – former ANVISA president
Public health physician Gonzalo Vecina, ex-president of the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency today classified Congress' position as "criminal" and "disastrous",...
February 11, 2021