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2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds balloons during a protest asking for COVID-19 vaccines and in favour of SUS (Unique Health System) during World Health Day in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo BRASILIA (Reuters) -A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday suspended extensions of drug patents in the country, a preliminary decision that could lower costs for drugs critical to treating COVID-19 patients at the expense of pharmaceutical firms. Justice Dias Tof...

UPDATE 2-Mexico, Brazil will not limit AstraZeneca vaccine after UK blood clot warning Reuters 7 hrs ago (Updates with Brazil not changing AstraZeneca vaccine usage) MEXICO CITY, April 7 (Reuters) - Mexican and Brazilian health regulators said on Wednesday they would not limit the use of AstraZenecas COVID-19 shot after Britains vaccine advisory committee recommended not using it for people under 30, citing rare blood clot risks. Mexicos drug regulator, Cofepris, said in a statement that it w...

4 Min Read RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil’s brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, scientists forecast, with fatalities climbing for the first time above 4,000 in a day on Tuesday as the outbreak overwhelms hospitals. Slideshow ( 5 images ) Brazil’s overall death toll trails only the U.S. outbreak, with nearly 337,000 killed, according to Health Ministry data, compared with more than 555,000 dead in the United States. Bu...

Brazil confirms first case of South African variant, makes room for soaring COVID-19 deaths FILE PHOTO: Gravediggers wearing protective suits handle bags with bones during exhumations to open space on cement graves as new burials are suspended, except private deposits and children, at Vila Nova Cachoeirinha cemetery amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 1, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo reuters_tickers This content was published on April ...

WIDER IMAGE-Clowning is serious business for doctor to homeless in Brazils crackland Reuters 3 hrs ago * For the photo essay, click on https://reut.rs/3dBUnUB By Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO, April 7 (Reuters) - In his white doctors jacket, psychiatrist Flavio Falcone could not get homeless drug addicts to talk. But costumed as a jester with a bright red nose, he has become an icon in Brazils "cracolandia," or crackland: a dangerous wasteland of about eight blocks in the historic center of Sao ...

5 Min Read RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazil has recorded its first confirmed case of the highly contagious coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa, a fresh danger sign for a country already ravaged by the world’s highest daily death toll fueled by a widespread local variant. FILE PHOTO: Members of an Emergency Mobile Care Service (SAMU) team transport a patient, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to a hospital in Bauru, Sao Paulo state, Brazil March 25, 2021. ...

Clowning is serious business for doctor to homeless in Brazils crackland Flavio Falcone, a psychiatrist, talks to homeless people in an area known as "cracolandia," or crackland, a dangerous wasteland of about eight blocks in the historic center of Sao Paulo, Brazil, February 9, 2021. Costumed as a jester with a bright red nose, Falcone has become an icon in Brazils crackland. Falcones patients know him as The Clown, not as a doctor. "This character represents the exposure of mistakes, of the f...

2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: A nurse holds balloons during a protest asking for COVID-19 vaccines and in favour of SUS (Unique Health System) during World Health Day in Brasilia, Brazil April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Wednesday suspended extensions of drug patents in the country, a preliminary decision that could lower costs for drugs critical to treating COVID-19 patients at the expense of pharmaceutical firms. Justice Dias To...

Brazil's brutal surge in COVID-19 deaths will soon surpass the worst of a record January wave in the United States, climbing well beyond an average 3,000 fatalities per day, scientists predict, as contagious new variants overwhelm hospitals.

Slideshow ( 2 images ) BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by telephone on Tuesday about buying and domestically manufacturing the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, Bolsonaro’s office said. Brazil is racing to secure more vaccine supplies as a new wave of COVID-19 pushes the number of deaths to the highest point since the pandemic began. Brazil has the second-deadliest outbreak after the United States, and with its hospital system ove...