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President Bolsonaro and his supporters defy concerns over deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon
Pulling in greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change.
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Covid and Populism: the nightmare in Brazil
South America’s biggest country has been struggling with pandemic since the start. Brazil reached a grim milestone of half a million deaths from the virus.
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‘A lot of these deaths could’ve been prevented’, says Brazilian epidemiologist Dr Pedro Hallal
Epidemiologist Dr Pedro Hallal runs Brazil’s largest coronavirus testing programme and is preparing to give evidence to a Brazilian Senate commission investigating President Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic.
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Brazilians rally against President Jair Bolsonaro after half a million die from Covid
Brazilians have taken to the streets to blame President Jair Bolsonaro for the country’s catastrophic Covid death toll.
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Covid cases surging dangerously high in Brazil and India
More than half of people in England live in areas which have barely recorded any new Covid cases – with some showing increases close to zero for more than a month. The latest 24-hour government figures show 106,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, more than 450,000 people had their second…
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Brazil’s Covid-19 catastrophe may threaten world as new variant spreads
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is being blamed for his country’s deadliest episode of the pandemic yet – with a highly transmissible variant, and warnings from doctors reporting more young people being admitted to hospitals with the virus than ever before.
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Brazil’s health system ‘bedlam’ as daily Covid deaths reach record high amid variants fear
To Brazil now, where a record number of Covid deaths – more than 3,700 – were reported yesterday, leaving large parts of its health system now close to collapse.
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Bolsonaro says stop ‘whining’ as Brazil Covid daily deaths reach record highs
Scientists are increasingly worried that the second wave of coronavirus ripping through Brazil could endanger the rest of the world.
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Mystery person with Brazil variant traced
Officials have managed to track down the missing person who tested positive for the Brazilian variant of Covid and say all their contacts have been traced.
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UK government defends border controls after Brazil variant cases found
Boris Johnson has defended the UK’s border and quarantine measures, as officials continue to search for a person infected with the new Brazilian variant of the virus before hotel quarantine was introduced.
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Six cases of Brazilian variant of Covid-19 found in the UK
Three cases of the Brazilian variant have been confirmed in Scotland and three in England
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Virus transmission in Brazil’s Manaus caused by ‘behaviour and actions’ – WHO’s Dr Margaret Harris
Dr Margaret Harris is from the World Health Organization.
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Health services in Brazil’s Manaus overwhelmed by Covid cases
Why has the UK decided to shut down its borders? The fear over new virus strains. In the US, the Biden administration expects that a new, faster-spreading variant will become dominant by March and that half a million people would have died from the virus by the end of February. A new very fast-spreading variant…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus after months of downplaying risks
He’s downplayed the risks of coronavirus for months – but today the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced he had tested positive for the disease.
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Coronavirus: Brazil becomes second most infected country in the world
Brazil has now become the second most infected country in the world, with more than 800,000 cases and almost 44,000 deaths from coronavirus.
