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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree on Thursday that will set aside 1.9 billion reais ($356 million) in funds to purchase and eventually produce the potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca PLC and Oxford University researchers. FILE PHOTO: Vinicius Molla, a hematologist and volunteer of…

FILE PHOTO: Physiotherapist Ana Carolina Xavier of FamilyCare, a group specialising in mobile physiotherapy care, and who also works at the ICU of Lagoa-Barra field hospital for COVID-19 patients, is treated by a colleague with the Brazilian physiotherapy method called RTA (Re-Balancing Thoracic-Abdominal), after being diagnosed with the coronavirus disease…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro’s government must adopt measures to stop the spread of novel coronavirus to the country’s vulnerable indigenous communities. A majority of the justices voted to give the government 30 days to draw up a plan to reduce the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Fires in the Brazilian Amazon increased 28% in July from a year ago, a state agency reported Saturday. The National Institute for Space Research, which is responsible for monitoring Brazil, said it recorded 6,803 fires in the Amazon rainforest last month, compared to 5,318 in the…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Facebook announced Saturday it has obeyed a Brazilian judge’s order for a worldwide block on the accounts of 12 of President Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters who are under investigation for allegedly running a fake news network.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said Friday night that the company…

(Adds analyst comment) By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA, July 31 (Reuters) - Brazil’s national debt rose to a record 85.5% of gross domestic product and the public sector registered a record $36.5 billion primary deficit in June, the central bank said on Friday, as the COVID-19 crisis hammered the government’s finances.…

FILE PHOTO: The Whatsapp logo and binary cyber codes are seen in this illustration taken November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s antitrust watchdog is asking Facebook Inc to explain the fee structure for its short-lived payments service launched in June in partnership with card processor Cielo SA,…

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BRASILIA, July 21 (Reuters) - Brazil’s government aims to present further elements of its broad tax reform proposals in 20 to 30 days, federal revenue service chief Jose Barroso Tostes Neto said on Tuesday, noting that plans for payroll tax exemptions are being drawn up. Tostes Neto was answering reporters’…

BRASILIA, July 21 (Reuters) - Brazil’s economy is reacting positively to emergency fiscal and credit measures to cushion the blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumer spending picking up at the margin and energy consumption rebounding, central bank director Bruno Serra said on Tuesday. Serra said the banking system is…