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Photo - Daniel Schludi: Unsplash Brazil is the first country in the Americas to include port workers, as well as other transport professionals in Brazil, in the priority group in the National Plan of Vaccination against Covid-19, reported Brazilian media. Although there is no date for vaccinations to start yet, the group's access to vaccine provides relief to these essential workers, who have continued working since the beginning of the pandemic, Portos do Paraná executives said. The port of Paranagua is located in the state of Parana, in southern Brazil...

[uam_ad id="317182"] RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - A new solitary bee species, known as the Ceratina (Ceratinula) fioreseana, has been discovered on a farm in Água Fria de Goiás, Brazil. The new bee species was first identified by Favizia Freitas de Oliveira, a research scientist with the Institute of Biology at Brazil’s Federal University of Bahia and Hebert Luiz Pereira with HP Agroconsultoria, a firm that focuses on bee production and conservation. In 2017, both began working with Henrique Fiorese, whose family owns the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Farm, where the discovery was made. Details sur...

: In May-2020 Infraero (the state airport operator, which now has a much-reduced role) signed a contract with the government of Guarujá in which Infraero will administer Guarujá Airport over the next 12 months. Infraero will have the target of enabling the airport to handle commercial services. In Oct-2020 Infraero announced that Minas Gerais State Government had hired Infraero to administer Ipatinga Usiminas Airport for 12 months, with a possible extension. Infraero will be responsible for operations, while the state will offer public safety, traffic inspections, environmental licences...

Local and federal officials in Brazil were warned of looming oxygen shortages nearly a week before crisis struck in the city of Manaus, the country's Solicitor General has revealed.

In the headlines: ►  Canada won’t be getting any Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines next week and 50% fewer than expected over the next month, officials said Tuesday, prompting the premier of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, to ask U.S. President Joe Biden to share a million doses from Pfizer’s Michigan plant. ► Florida’s surgeon general urged the federal government Wednesday to increase allotments of coronavirus vaccine to states like his where large concentrations of seniors face the greatest risk of illness and death from COVID-19. ► India began supplying corona...