129,000 New Virus Cases Reported in US, Brazil & India
The deadly coronavirus pandemic shows no sign of slowing in the countries with the highest caseloads — the United States, Brazil and India.
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Brazil
After Dismissing Virus Threat, Brazil President Tests Positive
After months of downplaying the deadly pandemic’s severity, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for Covid-19.
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Order for Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Wear a Mask Dismissed
A judge in Brazil on Tuesday dismissed a court ruling requiring President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a face mask in public during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Judge Orders Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Wear Mask
A federal judge in Brazil ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a face mask in public, after the far-right leader repeatedly flouted the coronavirus containment measures in place in Brasilia.
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Brazil Obeys Court Order to Resume Providing Full Virus Data
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to resume publication of full Covid-19 data, including the cumulative death toll, following allegations the government was trying to hide the severity of the pandemic in Latin America’s biggest country.
Read moreLatin America Overwhelmed by Coronavirus
The reality of life in Latin America in May was more unpleasant than anyone could have imagined. Just six months ago things were exponentially better. Today, battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the poor have been beaten by loss of income and the need to violate quarantine merely to survive.
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Latin America Coronavirus Cases Exceed 1 Million
Confirmed coronavirus cases in Latin America have surged past 1 million, while hard-hit Britain and Russia eased lockdowns Monday, despite not having their outbreaks fully under control.
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Coronavirus Creeps Through the Amazon Rain Forest
In the remote Amazon community of Betania, Tikuna tribe members suspect the coronavirus arrived this month after people returned from a two-hour boat trip down the Solimoes River to pick up their government benefit payments.
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Governors and Mayors Revolting Against Bolsonaro
Faced with overwhelmed hospitals and surging coronavirus deaths, Brazilian state and city governments are lurching forward with mandatory lockdowns against the will of President Jair Bolsonaro, who says job losses are more damaging than Covid-19.
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Brazilians Defy Isolation, Egged on by Bolsonaro
Divina Baldomero awoke, looked out the window at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach under a cloudless sky, and decided to take her first stroll in 40 days.
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Bolsonaro and Trump in Sync, Out of Touch
With his morbid imitation of Donald Trump, President Jair Bolsonaro is responsible for an incomprehensible response to the health emergency that has engulfed Brazil.
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Bolsonaro’s Inaction Is Worrying Brazil’s Neighbors
Brazil’s virtually uncontrolled surge of Covid-19 cases is spawning fear that construction workers, truck drivers and tourists from Latin America’s biggest nation will spread the disease to neighboring countries that are doing a better job of controlling the coronavirus.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Authorizes Investigation of Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday night authorized an investigation into whether President Jair Bolsonaro committed crimes by allegedly attempting to interfere with the country’s Federal Police.
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Brazil Looking Like the Next Virus Hot Spot
Brazil is emerging as the next big hot spot for the coronavirus despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s insistence that it is just a “little flu” and that there is no need for the sharp restrictions that have slowed the infection’s spread in Europe and elsewhere.
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Ecuadoran Health System in a State of Collapse
With hundreds of cadavers waiting to be picked up from Ecuadoran homes in late March and early April, the cadaver collection system collapsed. Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, suffered the nightmare of a horror movie.
Read moreVirus Ravaging Brazil Despite Bolsonaro’s Denials
After more than a week suffering a cough and fever — potential signs of Covid-19 — Maria do Espírito Santo went to a hospital in Manaus, Brazil’s biggest city in the Amazon rainforest. There were no beds available, just a plastic chair, so her family took her home.
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Virus Roundup: Navajo Nation Orders All to Wear Masks
The Navajo Nation is ordering all people on the tribe’s sprawling reservation to wear protective masks when out in public to help fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Bolsonaro Fires Brazilian Health Minister Amid Pandemic
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, whose dismissive stance toward the Covid-19 pandemic has angered many health experts, fired his popular health minister after a series of disagreements over the proper response to contain the virus’ spread in South America’s most populous country.
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Brazilian Governor Says Country Has ‘Bolsonaro Virus’
After a heated confrontation with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in March over his lackadaisical approach to the coronavirus, governors in the South American country have pulled back, wary of losing vital federal aid in the efforts to control Covid-19.
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Heart Problems Stop Small Test of Trump’s Recommended Drug
Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of a malaria drug that President Trump touted as a coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested.
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