Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen at the Alvorada Palace, in the midst of the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Brasilia, Brazil, on July 18, 2020.REUTERS / Adriano Machado SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that the blocking measures used to curb the spread …
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A health worker explains to a man how to lie down to collect a swab sample during the coronavirus disease screening test (COVID-19), at a test drive site in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, July 17 2020. REUTERS / Jose Luis González (Reuters) – The World Health Organization reported a record increase …
Read More »Dramatic images fuel fears that Amazon fires could be worse than last year | Ambient
Dramatic new images have shown fires in vast areas of the Brazilian Amazon nearly a year after fires across the region sparked an international crisis for President Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right government. The video footage and photos were filmed during a Greenpeace flight over a wide area of forest in the …
Read More »For the first time, the world records one million cases of coronavirus in 100 hours: Reuters count
(Reuters) – Global coronavirus infections passed 14 million on Friday, according to a Reuters count, marking the first time there has been an increase of 1 million cases in less than 100 hours. Volunteer Cindy Trevino delivers bread and cakes to a resident, affected by the economic consequences of the …
Read More »Brazil exceeds 2 million cases of coronavirus, with more than 76,000 deaths
Since the end of May, three months after the first case of coronavirus in Brazil, there have been more than 1,000 deaths daily on average. a horrible plateau that has yet to lean down. On Thursday night, the federal health ministry reported that the country had exceeded 2 million confirmed …
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