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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil on Saturday recorded 2,616 new COVID-19 deaths and 71,832 new coronavirus cases, the Health Ministry said. Brazil, which has become the latest epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with the second-highest death toll after the United States, has recorded 13.45 million cases and more than 350,000 deaths, official data show […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said this Saturday that the country is living in a "dictatorship" due to the restrictions that some regions of the country have implemented to prevent covid contagions and compared them to the "freedoms denied" by the "regime" of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. The statements […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The main Colombian cities began this Saturday, the first weekend of strict confinements, to reduce the spread of the third wave of coronavirus after several days more than 10,000 daily infections. Bogota, Medellin, and Barranquilla dawned this Saturday with traffic and transit lower than usual but higher than the first […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The South American country inoculated 812,374 people with the first dose and 192,788. Also, vaccination of people between 70 and 79 years of age began this day. Uruguay surpassed the one million inoculated against COVID-19, most of them with the first dose of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine or the American […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The World Bank will provide US$2 billion in funding for the purchase, development, and manufacture of vaccines by the end of April and is working with more than forty countries in this effort, said World Bank Chief Operating Officer Axel van Trotsenburg, with the goal of increasing that to US$4 […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The number of cases of covid-19 in Brazil increased by no less than 701.58% between January and March of this year, according to the latest Bulletin of the Covid-19 Observatory Fiocruz, released this Saturday, March 10. The number of deaths followed the trend and grew by 468.57% in the same […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, has called for patience from the population in the area near the La Soufriere volcano that erupted yesterday, Friday, and welcomed the fact that so far no deaths or injuries have been reported. Several neighboring nations such as St. […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Venezuelan forces detained members of the Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel during clashes with armed groups near its western border with Colombia, a top Venezuelan military official said on Friday. Venezuela s military on March 21 launched an offensive against what officials called irregular Colombian armed groups in the western state of […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Mexico will register “constant and growing” waves of migrants in the coming years, the country’s foreign affairs secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Thursday, April 8, and suggested that the United States should allocate US$2 billion in development aid annually to stem the tide. Ebrard said that Mexico has proposed to invest […]

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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Bolivia has extended the closure of its border with Brazil for a further 7 days. The information was confirmed late on Friday afternoon, April 9, by the Bolivian Ministry of Health. According to the agency, the border closure is due to concerns regarding the entry of the Brazilian P1 variant […]

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