A 2.9-magnitude earthquake strikes Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Image Credit: VolcanoDiscovery On Thursday afternoon, a light 2.9-magnitude earthquake struck Divinopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil at a very shallow depth below 1km. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the […]
Brazilian President rushed to hospital.
Image Credit: Twitter The Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been rushed to the hospital due to an intestinal blockage but is believed to be in stable condition. The Brazilian President […]
LPG tanker explosion in Brazil.
Image Credit: Maritime Bulletin On Thursday September 9 at around noon, LPG tanker Forte De Sao Marcos suffered an explosion in one of its cargo tanks at the port of […]
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 […]
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