Tag: Brazil

Apr 2021. Covid 19 in Brazil

Brazil has the second highest death toll in the world from Covid, and experts are warning that a current surge in cases may not peak for several weeks. The rapid spread of a coronavirus variant first discovered in Brazil has been a major cause for concern around the world. President Jair Bolsonaro has consistently played… Continue reading Apr 2021. Covid 19 in Brazil

Jan 2021. Covid 19 in Brazil

MANAUS, BRAZIL - MAY 25: Nurses and doctors rescue a woman in critical conditions after being infected by coronavirus (COVID-19) from the airplane that took her from Parintins city to Manaus on May 25 2020 in Manaus, Brazil. Intensive Care Unit flights have been made daily to remote areas in Amazonas to rescue for patients seriously infected by coronavirus and bring them to Manaus, where the medical structure is bigger and more efficient. (Photo by Andre Coelho/Getty Images)

Health workers in Brazil’s largest state are begging for help and oxygen supplies after an explosion of Covid deaths and infections that one official compared to a tsunami and said could be linked to a new variant. Amazonas, and particularly its riverside capital Manaus, were pummeled by the epidemic’s first wave last April, when authorities… Continue reading Jan 2021. Covid 19 in Brazil

Apr 2020. Buenos Aires Prison Stand Off

April 2020. The unsanitary, overcrowded prisons and juvenile detention centers in most Latin American and Caribbean countries offer prime conditions for outbreaks of COVID-19 that could severely affect the health of detainees and of the population at large, Human Rights Watch said today. In March 2020, inmates in detention facilities in several Latin American countries… Continue reading Apr 2020. Buenos Aires Prison Stand Off