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Brazilian president dismisses COVID-19 pandemic by riding with huge crowd of bikers through capital city on Mother s Day - despite country ranking second in the world for daily deaths
President Jair Bolsonaro lead dozens of bikers through the Brazilian capital Brasilia for a rally on Sunday to celebrate Sunday
Bolsonaro used the rally to tell supporters that he would not instruct the army to enforce state lockdown measures imposed to combat the COVID-19 pandemic
Brazil currently has the second highest daily death rate from Covid, after India
Brazil suffered 38,911 new cases on Sunday, and 1,024 new deaths
Overall, the country has suffered 422,340 Covid deaths and 15,184,790 cases
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that China created COVID-19 as a chemical, bacteriological and radiological warfare
The hardline president did not specifically name China in his speech, rather identified it as the nation whose GDP grew the most during the pandemic
Bolsonaro has been blamed in Brazil for mishandling a pandemic that has produced 414,399 confirmed deaths - second to in the world to the U.S.
The pandemic claimed the lives of 4,846 people in China
India had a record 3 980 daily death toll.
Canada authorised the use of Pfizer Inc s Covid-19 vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds.
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies.
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Europe The Group of Seven meeting in London was hit by a Covid-19 scare when India s foreign minister and his entire team said they were self-isolating after two delegation members tested positive. British officials are currently looking at which vaccines would offer the best booster shot for vulnerable people later this year and no decisions have been taken yet.
Coronavirus: What s happening in Canada and around the world on Thursday
A move by the U.S. government to support an easing of patent and other protections to get COVID-19 vaccines to more people around the world has quickly drawn support from like-minded activists, but stirred concern among pharmaceutical companies.
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A health-care worker administers the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, which was authorized by Canada to be used for children aged 12 to 15, at a Woodbine Racetrack pop-up vaccine clinic in Toronto on Wednesday.(Carlos Osorio/Reuters)