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Brazil scrambles for India-made Covid vaccines to jumpstart inoculations

Brazil made a diplomatic push to guarantee an Indian-made shipment of British drugmaker AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, hoping to avoid export restrictions that could delay immunisations

Brazil coronavirus update: 462 more Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours registered

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll totalled 195,411 after 462 more patients died in the past 24 hours

Brazil logs over 20,000 Covid-19 cases, taking total to over 7.5 million

Brazil registered 20,548 new Covid-19 cases in the past day, taking the national count to 7,504,833, the country's health ministry said

Brazil reports 18,479 new Covid-19 cases, taking tally to over 7.4 million

Brazil on Sunday registered 18,479 new Covid-19 cases, bringing its national count to 7,484,285, the country's health ministry said

Brazil's Sao Paulo tightens lockdown to curb Christmas, New Year revelry

Brazil's southeast state of Sao Paulo, said it will double down on lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus over the Christmas and New Year holidays

Brazil coronavirus update: Covid-19 death toll crosses 188,000-mark

Brazil's Covid-19 death toll reached 188,259 after 968 more patients died from the novel coronavirus disease, the country's ministry of health reported on Tuesday

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Snow leopards the latest cats to get infected

No normal Christmas for many in Europe, Brazil's vaccination plan does little to assuage public fears, what conferences may look like post Covid, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Brazil govt outlines plan for Covid-19 vaccinations with no start date

The plan calls for the government to provide immunization shots for priority groups that amount to about 51 million people, just under 25% of Brazil's 212 million people

Brazilian prosecutors sue Maersk over corruption, seek to freeze $200 mn

Prosecutors said there was evidence of bribe payments to Petrobras employees in exchange for privileged information that allowed Maersk to secure shipping contracts

Billionaire financier Joseph Safra, Brazil's richest man, dies at 82

Safra, who arrived in Brazil as a teenager more than five decades ago, ranks as the world's wealthiest banker, with an estimated fortune of $19.9 billion

Brazil to get 15 mn doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in Jan-Feb

The first batch of 15 million doses of Oxford University and AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine will be shipped to Brazil in January and February, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said

Brazil registers 287 new Covid-19 fatalities, toll now at over 173,000

Brazil registered 21,138 new infections and 287 new deaths from Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, raising its national caseload to 6,335,878 and death toll to 173,120

Brazil aviation regulator ends 737 MAX ban, planes could fly by year-end

Brazil's top regulator said Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, the only airline to operate the model in Brazil, is implementing the required measures to resume flights

Brazil coronavirus update: Toll reaches 169,183 with 194 new deaths

Brazil has reported 194 new deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the national death toll to 1,69,183, the health ministry said

Brazil to receive China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, eyes Pfizer candidate

Federal health officials met with Pfizer representatives on as Brazil seeks to secure vaccine supplies

Brazil emerging from recession, challenge to expand productivity: Govt

Although official economic growth figures have yet to be released by the National Geography and Statistics Institute, the bank's index is an indication

Brazil says Chinese coronavirus vaccine trial can resume after suspension

Brazil allowed resumption of late-stage Brazilian clinical trials for China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine, which was suspended due to a study subject's death that was reported in Sao Paulo as a suicide

Brazil's health regulator allows resumption of China's Covid vaccine trial

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime China skeptic who has baselessly dismissed the Sinovac vaccine as lacking in credibility, had hailed Monday's suspension as a personal victory

Brazil halting coronavirus vaccine CoronaVac trial surprises the world

The potential vaccine is being developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac and in Brazil would be mostly produced by Sao Paulo's state-run Butantan Institute

China Covid-19 vaccine trial halted in Brazil after serious adverse event

Testing of Sinovac Biotech's vaccine, called Coronavac, has been halted in Brazil after an event that occurred on Oct. 29, Brazil Health Agency said without giving any further detail on what happened