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Sao Paulo exhumes old graves to make space for surging COVID-19 burials Reuters 3 days ago © Reuters/AMANDA PEROBELLI Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sao Paulo By Eduardo Simões and Amanda Perobelli SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazils biggest city on Thursday sped up efforts to empty old graves, making room for a soaring number of COVID-19 deaths as Sao Paulo city hall registered record daily burials this week. Gravediggers in the Vila New Cachoeirinha cemetery in the citys...

Humans have destroyed two-thirds of world’s rainforest “The good news is that we have an area half the size of Europe that is still completely intact.” According to a Norwegian nonprofit, two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rainforest has been destroyed by humanity.  Two-thirds of the world’s original tropical #rainforest cover have been degraded or destroyed, new @RainforestNORW data reveals. We need to stop destroying forests & other nature, for the sake of our health, bi...

A new analysis from a nongovernmental organization says humans have destroyed or degraded two-thirds of the world’s rainforests, Reuters reported.

After two straight days of record COVID-19 deaths in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday told Brazilians to stop "whining" and move on, in his latest remarks attacking distancing measures and downplaying the gravity of the pandemic.

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BRASILIA, March 4 (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 75,102 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,699 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Brazil has registered nearly 10.8 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 260,970, according to ministry data. (Reporting by Jake Spring; Editing by Christian Plumb)

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Pedro Fonseca BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - After two straight days of record COVID-19 deaths in Brazil, President Ja...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BRASILIA, March 5 (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 75,495 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,800 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Friday. Brazil has registered nearly 10.9 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 262,770, according to ministry data. (Reporting by Jake Spring; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)

Brazil has the world’s second-highest death toll over the past year, after the United States.

A fifth board member at Brazil's Petrobras will step down, the company said as of Wednesday, and the state-run oil producer's shares tumbled more than 3% as management turmoil showed no signs of abating.

HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/BRAZIL-TALLY (URGENT):Brazil reports 75,102 new coronavirus cases, 1,699 deaths in 24 hours