Brasilia

(Updates with details about health minister Mandetta) By Lisandra Paraguassu and Eduardo Simões BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, March 25 (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil's largest states and cities for imposing lockdowns to slow the coronavirus outbreak, as tensions with his health…

With the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) schedule currently frozen as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, the most recent Octagon action fight fans remember seeing is Charles Oliveira choking out Kevin Lee at UFC Brasilia one week ago. It was the last UFC event to be held — albeit behind…

Gilbert Burns stopped Demian Maia via TKO on Saturday in the co-main event of UFC Brasilia in front of no fans. In his postfight speech in an empty arena, Burns called out Colby Covington, the most polarizing figure in the UFC's welterweight division.Little did Burns know that 18 hours later…

(Bloomberg) --For weeks, as the world was gripped by panic over the spreading coronavirus, Latin America looked largely unscathed. Supermarkets were stocked, buses still crowded and, as recently as a few days ago, the Mexican and Brazilian presidents were unabashedly mingling with large crowds.Now, as infections balloon in the region,…

The state of the world as we know it changed so much in the past week that it has left the entire sports world in limbo. Unlike every other major sporting organization, the UFC attempted—to the bitter end—to keep going on a regular weekly schedule. There are many aspects to…

It’s just business as usual for the live coding scene and algorave movement. From every corner of the globe, freely-coded performance is happening for four days straight – now.They come from Brasilia. They come from Detroit. They come from Indonesia and Antwerp, Ukraine and Mumbai, Rome and Miami and Japan.…

For those who thought that UFC being the last sports organization running a live event on television would mean record numbers due to lack of competition, that theory didn’t hold up. The last UFC show for at least a month, this past Saturday’s empty arena show from Brasilia, Brazil, averaged…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Davi Alcolumbre, the head of Brazil’s Senate, became the latest high-level political figure to test positive for coronavirus on Wednesday, his office said in a statement. Alcolumbre is without severe symptoms, but feels a little sick and is in quarantine at home, the statement said. An initial…

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and Minister of Health Luiz Henrique Mandettas, wearing protective face masks, sanitize their hands during a news conference to announce measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brasilia, Brazil March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano MachadoBRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta…

A cleaner disinfects a bus on the first day after a new measure to tackle coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread was introduced, which implies cleaning buses after each trip, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda PerobelliBRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil will partially close its border with Venezuela starting…