RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 28 ― Attention beach-lovers seeking a break from the pandemic: Rio de Janeiro is lifting its Covid-19 mask requirement for outdoor areas effective from today, the state's governor said, as once-pandemic-battered Brazil advances quickly with vaccinations. “We are going to.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 16 ― A Brazilian Senate probe into the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic will recommend in its final report due next week that President Jair Bolsonaro face 11 criminal charges, the senator leading the inquiry said yesterday, though it remains highly unlikely that.
BRASILIA, June 5 ― Brazilian health regulator Anvisa yesterday gave the green light for states to import the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, but with conditions attached. Anvisa's board voted 4-1 to grant the conditional approval after more than seven hours of deliberation, following the.
SAO PAULO, May 27 ― A traveller arriving in Brazil has been diagnosed with the coronavirus variant first discovered in India, Sao Paulo health officials said yesterday, stoking concerns that it could further fuel one of the world's deadliest outbreaks. Sao Paulo health authorities said they.
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A Covid-19 positive patient is transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hospital Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 17, 2021. ― Reuters pic
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 16 ― Brazil s hospitals were running out of drugs needed to sedate Covid-19 patients yesterday, with the government urgently seeking to import supplies amid reports of the seriously ill being tied down and intubated without effective sedatives.
Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said Brazil was in talks with Spain and other countries to secure the emergency drugs. Hospitals, he added, were also struggling to get enough oxygen.