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President Joe Biden’s administration will unveil a plan for distributing 80 million vaccines within two weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Latin American leaders during a trip to Costa Rica.
“We will distribute vaccines without political requirements of those receiving them,” Blinken told reporters on Wednesday. “Within the next two weeks or so, I expect we’ll be able to make clear exactly how we’re going to do that.”
Chinese officials have taken a different tactic, which involves accusing the United States of “hoarding” democracies while distributing hundreds of millions of jabs around the world making them vaccines that come with a political and financial price tag. That jockeying has added public health urgency to a more fundamental struggle about whether the region will be organized around the democratic rule of law and transparent governance or led by politicians comfortable working with the Chinese Communist regime on Bei
In recent weeks, nine major fires have ignited in the Brazilian Amazon, heralding the start of another fire season which, after a particularly dry year, experts say could be a bad one. “The rainy season is already finished and it was a bad [dry] rainy season,” Marcelo Seluchi, a meteorologist in Brazil’s national space research […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Costa Rica, meeting with leaders from Central America as COVID-19 worsens across Latin America and the Caribbean. Peru on Tuesday revised its official death toll, almost tripling it to 180,000 making it the worst death rate per capita in the world. Vaccine distribution and equity are likely to come up during Blinken s visit. Producer Ali Rogin reports.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Costa Rica, meeting with leaders from Central America.
One of the likely topics will be vaccine equity, as the COVID-19 crisis across Latin America and the Caribbean worsens.
Foreigners allowed to enter Brazil by plane only
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Even fully vaccinated travelers may be at risk for getting and spreading COVID-19 variants and should avoid all travel to Brazil.
Travelers should avoid all travel to Brazil
If you must travel to Brazil, get fully vaccinated before travel
Foreigners need to provide negative PCR test for COVID-19, made no later than 72 hours before departure
Brazilian authorities announced that the foreign nationals are allowed to enter the country by plane only.
According to the reports, the restrictions were introduced at the request of Brazil’s National Sanitary Inspection Agency (Anvisa) in connection with the potential epidemiological consequences of the spread of new variants of the coronavirus in the country.