Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro hospitalized.
Image Credit: AFP According to local media Globo, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been hospitalized on Wednesday in a military hospital in Brasilia. The President was admitted to hospital after […]
Jair Bolsonaro scrapped discounted Pfizer vaccine deal for a much more expensive Covaxin. Why?
Image Credit: AFP The controversial Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro dubbed the ‘tropical Donald Trump’, for his similarities to ex-US President Donald Trump, has been under scrutiny for scrapping a heavily […]
Brazil’s first COVID-19 vaccine ready for human trials.
Image Credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto On Friday, Brazil’s Butantan biomedical institute started human trials on a potential COVID-19 vaccine.The ButanVac vaccine, as it is being called, will be the first vaccine […]
Explosion kills four in Natal, Brazil.
Image Credit: Riotimesonline.com In the early hours of Sunday an explosion took the lives of four people in city of Natal, Brazil. Two other people were injured in the explosion. […]
United States donates $300,000 to fight COVID-19 in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Image Credit: Bruno Kelly/ Reuters The United States government announced that it will donate $300,000 (R$ 1.5million) through the International Development Agency (USAID) to fight COVID-19 in the hard-hit region […]
Turkey to receive 3 million doses of the Chinese vaccine; Brazil increasingly skeptic about CoronaVac effectiveness.
Image Credit: CFP On Thursday, Dr. Serhat Unal, a health expert in the Turkish medical board announced that the Chinese experimental vaccine developed by the Sinovac Biotech has shown an […]
Elected Brazilian Mayor enters intensive care.
Image Credit: Manguito Vilela/Twitter Manguito Vilela was elected Mayor in Goiânia, the tenth largest city in Brazil. The mayor was admitted to the hospital back in October due to COVID-19 […]
Jair Bolsonaro suffers political blow in municipal elections.
Image Credit: tv6.news On Sunday, Brazil had its first round of municipal elections. The election will end November 29. The elections went on smoothly, except for a cyber attack that […]
Rio De Janeiro cancels the Carnival for the first time in a century.
Image Credit: Riotur Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, delayed its annual Carnival parade for the first time in a century, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil is the second worst hit […]
