June 13, 2020 Brazil is exhuming graveyards to make room for increased burials amid coronavirus Sao Paulo has started to dig up graveyards to create more space as coronavirus continues to ravage Brazil.
June 7, 2020 Brazil stops publishing its running coronavirus death toll Brazil's government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary move that critics call an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease in Latin America's largest nation.
June 6, 2020 Destruction of tropical forests worldwide increased in 2019, study shows The worldwide destruction of tropical forests increased last year, according to a recent study.
June 5, 2020 As Brazil sees record deaths, Bolsonaro proclaims: Death is 'everyone’s destiny' The coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has steadily worsened as death rates have surpassed Italy’s, and the country has become the second leading nation in the world in infection rates, behind the United States.
June 5, 2020 Brazil to join Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine trial Brazil will join Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial, the university announced this week.Â
June 4, 2020 Fears for Brazil's indigenous tribes as coronavirus death toll continues to climb Brazil’s coronavirus numbers have skyrocketed, with a record number of cases and deaths almost every day.
May 27, 2020 Latin America becomes new epicenter of coronavirus pandemic, as corruption surges with mismanaged relief funds Latin America has become the new epicenter of the global coronavirus outbreak, as the region has seen more than 2.4 million cases and more than 143,000 deaths, a health official announced Tuesday.
May 26, 2020 Ex-DHS chief says stockpile of key supplies 'was definitely there' after Trump says Obama 'left us nothing' Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson pushed back Tuesday against President Trump's claim that the Obama administration left him with a bare Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies, telling "Your World" that it was "one of the very few things that we talked to the incoming administration about as we were leaving office."
May 26, 2020 World Health Organization continues to lavish China with praise for handling of coronavirus crisis WHO officials renewed their praise for China and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, citing Beijing's "openness" to the prospect of scientific inquires involving foreign experts into the origins of the contagion.Â
May 24, 2020 White House bars entry of non-US citizens traveling from Brazil, citing coronavirus concerns The White House on Sunday announced that the U.S. would bar entry of non-citizens traveling from Brazil, which has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in previous weeks.