BREAKING NEWS: Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US: Minnesota resident becomes first American with highly-contagious variant that vaccines may not be able to protect against Minnesota health officials identified the first case of the Brazilian P1 variant in the US on Monday The Twin Cities resident recently traveled to Brazil and returned this month They … Read more
Brazil’s ‘Trump of the Tropics’ President Jair Bolsonaro claims there was ‘a lot of fraud’ in the US election and will ‘wait a little longer’ before recognizing Biden’s win Bolsonaro suggested to reporters that there are questions looming over the vote ‘I have my sources of information… there really was a lot of fraud there,’ … Read more
Meteor is seen exploding in the sky over Brazil in footage captured by space observatory The Heller and Jung Space Observatory in Porto Alegre, Brazil, recorded the explosion of a meteor Monday in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul The meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 2:31am local time at an altitude of … Read more
Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tells reporter ‘I want to punch you in the face’ after he was asked about payments into his wife’s bank account Jair Bolsonaro threatened a journalist from the O Globo newspaper on Sunday The paper condemned his ‘aggression’ towards a reporter acting ‘professionally’ Bolsonaro was asked about claims that an aide paid … Read more
Brazil’s first lady has tested positive for coronavirus just days after her husband President Jair Bolsonaro tested negative, having spent two weeks in isolation with the virus. Michelle Bolsonaro, 38, has tested positive for coronavirus, a statement from the presidency’s press office announced on Thursday. The statement said she appeared to be in good health, … Read more
Brazil’s coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 on Monday, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic. The figure, second only to the death toll in the United States, quadrupled in two months. Brazil passed the mark of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths on May 21. Recently, … Read more
Brazil’s poorly looking president Jair Bolsonaro attends flag lowering ceremony outside official residence after revealing he is still testing positive for coronavirus Populist Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro is still testing positive for Covid-19 He first announced he had been infected by the killer disease on July 7 The median time from onset to clinical recovery … Read more
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he is feeling ‘very good’ and will return to work if he tests negative for the new coronavirus on Tuesday, but that he will continue to isolate himself until he is free of the virus. The right-wing president told broadcaster CNN Brasil he has not felt out of … Read more
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has hit back at critics of the hydroxychloroquine drug he is using to treat his coronavirus infection. He wrote in a Twitter post that he is ‘very well’ and ‘will live a long time’ a day after he shared footage of himself taking a dose of the anti-malaria drug – which is … Read more
Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro today revealed he has tested positive for coronavirus – but dismissively removed his mask as he told reporters he felt ‘perfectly well’. Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly played down the severity of the virus and mingled with crowds of supporters in spite of social distancing rules, said his fourth coronavirus test had … Read more