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Teachers and health workers strike amid back-to-school campaign in Brazil Teacher being tested for coronavirus in São Paulo state school. (Governo do Estado de São Paulo) The pandemic has resulted in a total of 242,178 recorded deaths and 10 million cases in Brazil, surpassed only by the United States. More than 300,000 new cases were recorded last week along with 7,520 deaths, the second highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a week since the start of the pandemic. Health care workers are conf...

Mexico received a consignment of 870,000 doses of the Pune-made AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine from India on Sunday, the government of the Latin American country said.Mexico is the second Latin American country to get India-made vaccines ...

Listen to the story. MC Fioti during the recording of the remix version of his 2017 hit "Bum Bum Tam Tam," which has become Brazils COVID-19 vaccine anthem.  Credit: Share While Brazil is not the only country in the world struggling to vaccinate its population against the novel coronavirus, it might be the first one to have a vaccine awareness anthem hitting the music charts — and promoting trust in vaccinations along the way. The song is titled “Vacina Butantan,” by MC Fioti, a sp...

Hopes of herd immunity wane in Manaus as city declares state of emergency to curb Covid resurgence Hospitals and cemeteries are again overwhelmed, resembling the brutal outbreak last April. It comes as Brazils death toll hits 200,000 8 January 2021 • 5:53pm Parque Taruma cemetery is a grim reminder of what can happen if Covid-19 spreads uncontrolled Credit: Simon Townsley Standing in the glaringly white, air conditioned corridors of one of Manaus’ newest hospitals in September, Dr Thales Sc...

While Brazil still has no official date to start its immunization campaign, other Latin American countries are starting to vaccinate against Covid-19. Mexico, Costa Rica and Chile were the first in the continent, applying the first doses on Thursday (24). "Today is the beginning of the end of the pandemic," said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard. On Wednesday (23), the country received three thousand doses of the vaccine developed by the Pfizer / BioNTech, and today, nur...