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By: Reuters | Brasilia | Published: June 10, 2020 7:16:14 am Health personnel work in a field hospital built inside a gym to treat COVID-19 patients in Santo Andre, on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil (AP Photo/Andre Penner)Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Eduardo SimõesBRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil on Tuesday restored detailed COVID-19 data to its official national website following controversy over the removal of cumulative totals and a ruling by a Supreme Court justice that the full set of information be reinstated.The move came after days of…

FILE PHOTO: People stand in line at the central bus station in Brasilia, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Brazil June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported a total of 37,134 deaths due to coronavirus and 707,412 confirmed cases as of Monday, according to the Council…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus. A new Brazilian record for daily…

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo BritoBRASILIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned Latin American governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus throughout the region.A new Brazilian…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - One of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit, and accusations that he has undermined Brazil’s young democracy have not loosened President Jair Bolsonaro’s grip on power. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives to the inauguration ceremony of a temporary field…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian states are bolstering the fight against destruction of the Amazon rainforest with millions of dollars from an oil company’s corruption settlement that allows them to partially compensate for weakening environmental protections under President Jair Bolsonaro. FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of a tract of Amazon jungle…

FILE PHOTO: Director of the Pan American Health Organization Carissa Etienne speaks to the media during a meeting of Public Health ministers of the Mercosur trade block in Montevideo February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Andres Stapff/File PhotoBRASILIA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization’s regional director for the Americas urged the United States…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro urged his supporters on Monday to put off their protests against the country's Supreme Court next weekend after counter-demonstrations triggered violent clashes on Sunday."Leave things alone on Sunday," the right-wing president said, referring to the protests. He spoke at the gates of his…

Image copyright EPA Image caption Covid-19 tests are carried in a rural area near Manaus in Amazonas state The number of coronavirus fatalities in Brazil has risen by almost 1,000 in a day, making the country's overall death toll the world's fourth highest.Its figure of 28,834 has now surpassed France,…