Frozen chicken wings imported to China from Brazil have tested positive for the coronavirus, local authorities said on Thursday. A sample was taken from the surface of the wings and tested positive, making them one of the last imports of food to test positive for the virus, according to Reuters. …
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Fires currently burning in the Amazon rainforest could be even more destructive than last year, but the Brazilian government denies that they even exist. On Tuesday, President Jair Bolsonaro called the fires a “lie” – because photos and videos from the region burned the forest. Fires in the Amazon for …
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BRAZIL (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a ‘lie’, despite data produced by his own government showing thousands of fires in run the whole region. A Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) member …
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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached 20 million on Tuesday – more than half of them in the US, Brazil and India – and the death toll is more than 737,000, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. It took about six months to reach 10 million cases, …
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