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Family members watch as cemetery workers place into a niche a coffin with the remains of person suspected to have died from coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP)

Brazil emerges as next big coronavirus hotspot

New cases rose roughly 9.2% over the last 24 hours, while deaths increased roughly 7.8%

7 May 2020 12:58 PM IST

Brazilian pediatric doctor Monica Levi, one of the volunteers who received the COVID-19 vaccine, speaks during an interview at the Specialized Clinic in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and Immunizations (CEDIPI), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The doctor is one of the 5,000 volunteers participating in Brazil of the phase 3 trials - the last before homologation - of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford together with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (AFP)

Brazil healthcare staff volunteer to test coronavirus vaccines

Brazil is also the first country carrying out Phase 3 trials of Chinese vaccine CoronaVac, developed by pharmaceutical...

30 July 2020 9:11 AM IST

Jair Bolsonaro (L) and his son Flavio Bolsonaro (R). (AFP)

Bolsonaro's son Flavio tests positive for virus in Brazil

The senator's office said he is taking Hydroxychloroquine, which his father has aggressively pushed as a treatment for...

26 Aug 2020 11:11 AM IST

A health worker gives a paper to a soldier at a COVID-19 drive-thru test post set up by the Public Health Ministry in Asuncion. (AFP)

Latin America's COVID-19 cases exceed 6 million

The region's worst-affected country is Brazil, which has the most cases in the world after the United States, and 15% of...

15 Aug 2020 12:11 PM IST

A city health worker takes a residents blood sample during a city new program that aims to administer 20 thousand COVID-19 tests in Rio de Janeiros poor neighborhoods, at Morro da Providencia favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP)

Up to a quarter of Brazilians may not take COVID-19 vaccine: Survey

People cite conspiracy theories like having a chip implanted by taking the vaccine, and that it is made with aborted...

7 Sept 2020 11:41 AM IST

Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, center, and Joao Vericimo enter the COVID-19 area of a hospital as they prepare to move a patient in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP)

Brazil sees record-high ICU occupancydue to COVID-19 surge

The South American country has the world's second-largest COVID-19 outbreak after the US, with 340,776 deaths and...

8 April 2021 2:55 PM IST