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Vaccines: what we know and what we still don’t know
The first batch of Pfizer vaccine to arrive in the UK consists of just 800,000 doses, but NHS bosses say they expect to have more by the end of the year.
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FactCheck Q&A: how safe is the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine?
The coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University is under scrutiny after the makers admitted an error had led to different groups getting different doses in clinical trials.
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Poor forced to collect Covid corpses for work in Peru
Peru now has the fifth highest number of cases worldwide despite having a population of only 30 million, with poverty and crowded food markets blamed for fuelling the spread of the virus.
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FactCheck: did Israeli secret service teach Floyd police to kneel on neck?
The claim has attracted criticism from many commentators.
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How an Amazon rainforest village survived Covid-19 with modern and traditional medicine
We meet members of the Kambeba tribe in the Amazonian rainforest to find out how they have been coping.
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Only doctor left Peruvian village as Covid-19 outbreak took hold
The danger to indigenous people is not limited to Brazil. Guillermo Galdos has travelled along the Amazon from the Peruvian capital Lima to Shipibo.
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WHO declares Central and South America as new epicenter of coronavirus pandemic
The World Health Organization declared this week that the central and south America have emerged as the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The ‘ostrich alliance’: world leaders who deny the threat of coronavirus
They’ve been dubbed the ‘ostrich alliance’ – the handful of world leaders who’ve taken the ‘stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist’ approach to coronavirus.
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Amazon Guardian killed by illegal loggers
A young indigenous anti-logging activist has been shot dead in the Brazilian Amazon. Paulo Paulino Guajajara’s tribe said he was ambushed by illegal loggers while out hunting. Another tribesman was injured. Both were members of a local group formed to combat the threat of illegal logging gangs pillaging the rainforest. The Brazilian Justice Minister said…
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The other Amazon forest fire that no-one is talking about
While the fires in the Brazilian Amazon have made headlines across the world for the past weeks, in neighbouring Bolivia fires have also been raging.
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The Amazon is still burning – and illegal mining could make it worse
The Brazilian government has banned most land clearing for 60 days, in an attempt to stop the fires which have devastated parts of the Amazon rainforest.But another drain on natural resources there – and one far less reported – is mining, especially illegal gold mining.
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Amazon fires: G7 countries pledge £18m to tackle blazes
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said his country was being treated like a colony.
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Mikaela Weisse: ‘This is only the beginning of the fire season. The next two months are critical’
Discussion with Anthony Pereira, director of the Brazil Institute at King’s College University, and Mikaela Weisse, manager of the Global Forest Watch.
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Modern technology and voice of women empower Amazon tribe to combat illegal poaching
They have traditional dances, bows and arrows, the songs and the warpaint.
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The Amazon tribe battling to save the rainforest
Last month deforestation in the Amazon basin hit record levels. It results from the pro-farming policy being pursued by Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro.