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Kalamazoo, MI, USA / WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo | 590 AM · 106.9 FM Dec 29, 2020 9:20 PM BRASILIA (Reuters) - Russias Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has requested regulatory approval to launch Phase 3 trials in Brazil, Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said late on Tuesday. The Sputnik vaccine is being developed by Moscows Gamaleya Research Institute and marketed by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Brazilian partner Uniao Quimica, a pharmaceutical company, entered the request with A...

Brazil reports 55,649 new coronavirus cases, 1,194 additional deaths Reuters 12/30/2020 BRASILIA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 55,649 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,194 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Brazil has registered more than 7.6 million cases of the virus since the pandemic began, while the official death toll has risen to 193,875, according to ministry data. (Reporting by Jake Spring and Anthon...

Brazil reports 58,718 new coronavirus cases, 1,111 additional deaths Reuters 12/29/2020 BRASILIA, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Brazil recorded 58,718 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,111 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. It was the worst daily death toll reported by the ministry since Sept. 15, adding to concerns of a growing second wave of infections in Latin Americas largest country. Brazil has registered nearly 7.6 millio...

(Adds details on intervention, chart) BRASILIA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Brazil’s central bank intervened in the spot foreign exchange market on Monday for the first time in two months, selling $530 million after the local currency had slipped to a one-month low against the U.S. dollar . The intervention in typically illiquid year-end trading occurred after the real had fallen below 5.31 per dollar, a slide of more than 2% which had put it on course for its steepest one-day depreciation in three mo...