SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil topped 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, becoming the second country to do so amid a spike in infections that has seen the South American country report record ...

Amid a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, Brazil has seen a consistent increase in the number of cases of the novel coronavirus in recent weeks. It is the second wave of the pandemic ...

Food distribution to homeless population in Curitiba, in southern state of Paraná. (Credit: Valmir Fernandes [Photo by Coletivo Marmitas da Terra / CC BY 4.0] A study released by Brazil’s Health ...

Nearly three years after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was declared over, conservative estimates suggest that between 80 million ...

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When her COVID-19 test came back positive, Dialisa Mata was unable to hold back the flood of tears. She had heard how dangerous the virus could be, and as an indigenous woman whose people have been ...

When NPR first featured the work of Brazilian scientists and longtime best friends Patricia Neves and Ana Paula Ano Bom, they were in the early stages of an audacious attempt to break open global ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s term wound down in the final days of December 2022, he had decided to skip the ritual of handing over the presidential sash to his successor, ...

Orlando Martínez had barely heard of COVID-19 when 26 members of his Warao ethnic group came down with tell-tale symptoms of the illness. “At first they got a fever and couldn’t eat. Then, they got ...

BRASILIA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday visited Health Minister General Eduardo Pazuello, who has COVID-19, and made his point that the disease is easy to recover ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government has confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in Latin America. The health minister said Wednesday that a 61-year-old man who traveled to Italy's ...