PORTO ALGREE, Brazil – Brazil is preparing to fight a new Covid-19 variant from Amazon that threatens to send shock waves around the world. With less than%% of the world’s population, Brazil currently accounts for about a third of the world’s daily deaths from Covid-1, a new variable. More than …
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While the rise in coronavirus infections is forcing U.S. states and European countries to close bars, open-air hospitals and limit social gatherings to small groups of people, such measures are becoming distant memories in most parts of Asia. For months now, life in Asia, where the virus first emerged, has …
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U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention More than 1,000 current and former officials of the elite disease-fighting program at the centers have signed an open letter expressing frustration over the country’s public health response to the Kovid-19 epidemic and calling on the federal agency to do so. To play …
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Seven months after its first coronavirus case was reported, the world’s fourth most populous country still has a large number of blind flights. An archipelago of 270 million people, Indonesia has tested a smaller portion of its population than any other major economy. According to Our World in Data, a …
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Anna Noise, a retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her diet often consists of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as airspace. Even when she has the money to buy groceries at Maracaibo’s teaming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell waste like animal hide …
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