Latin America’s COVID-19 situation remains devastating
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Brazil’s upcoming fire season and drought are likely to complicate Covid cases.
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Patients were treated in the coronavirus wing of a hospital in Tefé, a remote municipality in Amazonas, Brazil, last year.Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — Scientists are projecting another bad fire season in the Amazon, one that … Read More
Influx of Arab immigrants to Brazil remains constant
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The country has been a destination for Syrians, Lebanese, and citizens from other Arab countries since the late 19th century. Amid increases and decreases in the number of immigrants, Brazil has always remained as a safe haven during times of … Read More
Brazil passes 10 million coronavirus infections
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Brazil, the country with the second-highest coronavirus death toll, passed the 10-million mark for reported infections Thursday, amid a deadly second wave and problems with its vaccination campaign. The country became the third to reach the … Read More
India Begins Covid-19 Vaccine Exports to Brazil, Morocco
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A nurse administers a shot of the Covishield vaccine, developed by Oxford-Astrazeneca Plc. and manufactured by Serum Institute of India Ltd., at a vaccine center in the Bandra Kurla Complex hospital in Mumbai, India, on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. India … Read More
Brazil Becomes One Of China’s Top Oil Suppliers
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Brazil climbed to number three among China’s crude oil suppliers last month thanks to continued purchases by independent refiners, whose quotas for imported crude oil are running out. Imports of Brazilian crude oil stood at 4.49 million tons in September, … Read More
Pompeo visits refugees in Brazil, pressuring Venezuela’s Maduro
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Venezuelan migrants at a refugee reception center in northern Brazil on Friday at the third stop of a regional tour to ramp up pressure to oust Venezuela’s leftist President … Read More
Up in smoke: Brazil’s Pantanal region engulfed by flames
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Last year, record-breaking fires in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest sparked international outrage. But the fallout from this year’s fire season, which lasts until October, could be even worse. This time around, the Pantanal region, in the west of the country, is being engulfed … Read More
As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics
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Government data released last Friday shows that from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2020 forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon totaled 9,205 square kilometers (3.554 square miles), an increase of 34.5% over the previous comparative period (2018/2019), when 6,844 … Read More
Sick With Covid, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Defends His Virus Approach
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BRASILIA, BRAZIL – JUNE 23: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during ceremony to inaugurate the Main Spacial Operations Center (COPE-P) amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the Comando de Operações Aeroespaciais on June 23, 2020 in Brasilia. Brazil has … Read More