Jun 19 Official death toll in Brazil approaches 500,000 By Associated Press The South American country has now registered 17,801,462 cases since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 498,499, according to ministry data, in the world's third-worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest. Continue reading
Jun 01 In Brazil’s Amazon, rivers rise to record levels By Fernando Crispim, Diane Jeantet, Associated Press Rivers around the biggest city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have swelled to levels unseen in over a century of record-keeping, straining a society that has grown weary of increasingly frequent flooding. Continue reading
May 25 Watch 9:24 Inequities in care, misinformation fuel COVID deaths among poor, indigenous Brazilians By Simon Ostrovsky, Charles Lyons All across Brazil, slums — known as Favelas — have long been places of crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death toll just… Continue watching
May 21 Watch 6:04 4 ways the US can help stem COVID deaths globally By William Brangham While the pandemic's toll is easing in the U.S., COVID-19 still has a deadly grip on many other countries. The estimated global death toll remains around 13,000 people a day, and the World Health Organization's new estimates are far higher. Continue watching
May 13 Watch 8:59 Former Brazilian president says Bolsonaro became a ‘rogue leader,’ botched COVID response By Amna Nawaz Brazil has been struggling to combat COVID-19, with an official death toll now only surpassed by the U.S. Many say a crisis of leadership by right-wing populist President Jair Bolsonaro led to this moment. Former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio… Continue watching
May 06 Watch 5:05 India records 400,000 new infections for the second time during second wave In our news wrap Thursday, the COVID emergency is growing ever more desperate in India as new infections top 400,000 for a second time, with nearly 4,000 deaths in 24 hours. French President Emmanuel Macron voiced support for releasing COVID… Continue watching
May 05 Watch 9:36 Bolsonaro faces criminal investigation, possible impeachment over COVID response in Brazil By Simon Ostrovsky, Charles Lyons Brazil formalized a criminal investigation last week into President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic. It could lead to his impeachment. The country just passed 400,000 total fatalities so far, with no significant slowdown in sight. With support from the… Continue watching
Apr 30 Watch 6:30 News Wrap: U.S. to restrict travel from India as it sends aid to virus-torn country In our news wrap Friday, the U.S. will restrict travel from India as it sends aid to help with the country's spike in COVID-19 infections. Brazil's health minister appealed to other countries to share spare vaccines as they struggle to… Continue watching
Apr 29 Brazil tops 400,000 virus deaths amid fears of renewed surge By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press Brazil on Thursday became the second country to officially top 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, losing another 100,000 lives in just one month, as some health experts warn there may be gruesome days ahead when the Southern Hemisphere enters winter. Continue reading
Apr 17 Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 million By David Biller, Maria Cheng, Joshua Goodman, Associated Press The number of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the population of Kyiv, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; or metropolitan Lisbon, Portugal. It is bigger than Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined. Continue reading