FILE PHOTO: A shipment of doses of the Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen after arriving at the Ezeiza International Airport, in Buenos Aires, Argentina on January …
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SAO PAULO (AP) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro elected his fourth health minister since the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, amid the worst agony of the disease in the country to date and …
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SAO PAULO (AP) – Katia Sastre was taking her 7-year-old son to class in Suzano, a violent city near Sao Paulo, when she saw a young man point a gun at other …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Rumors and conspiracy theories swirled last week regarding the whereabouts of Zé Gotinha, the mascot for the national vaccination program. The outcry surrounding the disguised Zé Gotinha …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu, Diego Vara BRASILIA / PORTO ALEGRE (Reuters) – Hospitals in Brazil’s major cities are reaching capacity, health officials warned, as the country recorded the highest death toll from COVID-19 …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu, Diego Vara BRASILIA / PORTO ALEGRE (Reuters) – Hospitals in Brazil’s major cities are reaching capacity, health officials warned, as the country recorded the highest death toll from COVID-19 …
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A medical worker receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Tokyo Metropolitan Center for Cancer and Infectious Diseases Komagome Hospital in Tokyo on March 5, 2021 (Yoshikazu Tsuno / Pool …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Brazil’s hospitals are failing as a highly contagious variant of coronavirus sweeps the country, the president insists on unproven treatments and the only attempt to create a …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – New COVID-19 cases continue to decline in North America, but infections in Latin America continue to rise, particularly in Brazil, where a resurgence has caused record daily deaths, the …
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Scientists warn that the uncontrolled outbreak of coronavirus in Brazil could threaten the global fight to end the pandemic. The more infectious and vaccine blunting P1 variant that emerged there has already …
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