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Luis Alves Nogueira, 74, left, receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker, in the Pupuri community along the Purus River, in the Labrea municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) After enduring 40-knot winds and freezing sea spray, jostled health care providers arrived wet and cold on two Maine islands in the North Atlantic late last month to conduct coronavirus vaccinations. As they came ashore on Little Cranberry Island, population 65, residents danced with excitement. “It’s a historic day for the island,” said Kaitlyn Miller, who joined a friend in belting out “I’m not giving away my shot!” from the Broadway show Hamilton when the crew arrived. ....
More than 100 days since the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Latin America, the pandemic is still dangerously resurging in some areas. The region s recent battle with the coronavirus remains marked by disparities, with some countries boasting of positive vaccination trends while hospitals in neighboring nations collapse under waves of new cases Particularly worrying are high COVID-19 mortality rates in Brazil, Peru, Chile and Paraguay - a likely sign that local health systems are being stretched beyond their capacity. An aerial view of open graves amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at Vila Formosa Cemetery on May 18, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Vila Formosa Cemetery is the largest in Latin America and compared to data from a year ago, the cemetery had an increase of 50 per cent in number of burials(Getty / Alexandre Schneider) ....
Government inaction prompts voluntary REDD+ carbon credit boom in Brazil by Fernanda Wenzel on 6 April 2021 With the Bolsonaro government largely indifferent to participating in a carbon credit market, and amid intensifying pressure from clients and investors, a voluntary carbon credit market is booming in Brazil. The country, however, still doesn’t have any regulation about how and by whom credits can be issued. REDD+ projects that issue carbon credits for reforesting or avoiding deforestation have caught the attention of financial market players. Amid the new carbon credit trading firms, such as financial technology company Moss, and other initiatives, Brazilian projects offer both examples of success and failure in forest preservation. ....
Updated: 8 Mar 2021, 11:01 UNCONTACTED and isolated Amazon tribes face being “wiped out” by the mutant Brazilian Covid strain as the government has been accused of genocide by campaigners. Activists claim invading loggers, miners and landgrabbers are spreading coronavirus to the sprawling rainforest s indigenous people, who have little immunity to most diseases, with the virus killing ten children recently in one village. Read our coronavirus live blog for the latest news & updates. 14 The uncontacted Awá in the Brazilian Amazon use the resin of the maçaranduba tree to make fire to light houses and to hunt at night 14 A nurse takes the temperature of a Covid-19 patient member of the Witoto indigenous tribe at a hospital set up near Manaus, BrazilCredit: Getty Images - Getty ....
Uncontacted Amazon tribes on brink of being WIPED OUT by Brazil's mutant Covid as bug unleashed by 'invading' loggers thesun.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesun.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.