Brazil

More than 2,280 one-day coronavirus deaths emerge as President Jair Bolsonaro signs a bill to expedite vaccine purchases.Brazil once again set a daily record for novel coronavirus-related deaths as the head of the Pan American Health…

President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of pandemics and the slow distribution of vaccines has sparked protests and investigations.Pfizer Inc has filed for full regulatory approval for its COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil, the country's health…

The news comes as President Joe Biden reinstates coronavirus travel bans for most non-U.S. Residents from multiple countries.The United States has reported its first known case of the COVID-19 variant, first discovered in Brazil. The…

Brazilian epidemiologist Jesem Orellana said the hospital beds of COVID-19 patients in Manaus, the capital of the country's Amazon region, have become "chambers of suffocation." "Manaus is lost," said Orellana, who described the city as an…

A shortage of oxygen tanks in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas brought the health system to the brink of collapse this week as hospitals turned away sick people and officials scrambled to move seriously ill coronavirus patients to…

The attack in Cametá appears to be a replica of an attack carried out in the city of Criciúma 24 hours earlier.

At around 3:00 am local time, Criciúma Mayor Clésio Salvaro said in a tweet that "a major attack" had taken place and urged people to stay home.

Brazil has recorded nearly 5.3 million confirmed coronavirus cases - the third highest number in the world after the US and India - and ranks second after the US with nearly 155,000 registered deaths according to data collected by Johns…