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A 38-year-old woman died as she was celebrating with her family on a beach in Praia Grande, Sao Paulo, when an alleged unauthorised firework display took place, in Brazil. A cousin of the victim told the police that she was in the sand strip when the incident occurred, according to the Secretariat of …

Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday gave his “fullest support” to the re-election campaign of Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, whom he called a “great man”. “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the Tropics’ as he is nicknamed, has done a great job for the wonderful people of Brazil,” …

The Brazilian Congress dismissed from her functions Wednesday, the deputy and evangelical leader Flordelis dos Santos, accused by the courts of having ordered the assassination of her husband in June 2019. The parliamentarian, elected in 2018 under the label of the Social Party democratic (PSD, conservative) and known by its …

Brazil recorded this Wednesday 90,303 new cases of Covid-19 contamination in 24 hours, a record, as well as 2,648 new deaths, bringing the daily average over the last seven days to 2017, the highest since the start of the pandemic. With these two new records, this country of 212 million …

A second wave of Covid-19 is ripping through Brazil, pushing hospitals and ICUs toward collapse and claiming record numbers of daily deaths. While a new variant of the coronavirus spreads throughout the country, many Brazilians continue to defy mask mandates mobility restrictions following the example of President Jair Bolsonaro, who …

Hospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff. The city, in Amazonas state, has seen a rapid rise in deaths and infections. Health professionals, quoted by local media, warned that “many people could die …

A coronavirus vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers. It shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested – barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval. The Chinese vaccine …