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‘A biological Fukushima’: Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to rival US
Fatalities climbed above 4000 in a day on Tuesday for the first time, taking the pandemic total to nearly 337,000.
- by Pedro Fonseca
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Argentine President tests positive to COVID despite vaccination
Argentine President Alberto Fernández says he had an initial positive test for COVID-19, despite having been vaccinated in January.
- by Almudena Calatrava
‘Strength and honour’: Bolsonaro government celebrates military coup anniversary
The Brazilain President, a former army captain, has sought to steer the public conversation to his nostalgia for the 1964-1985 dictatorship and away from his handling of the pandemic.
- by Mauricio Savares and Diane Jeantet
Brazil’s military chiefs all quit as Bolsonaro seeks their support
The resignations followed the appointment of a new defence minister who celebrated the dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands of Brazilians.
- by Diane Jeantet and David Biller
Worst may lie ahead for Brazil, source of a quarter of world’s daily COVID deaths
COVID deaths are soaring in Brazil and health experts warning that the nation is on the verge of disaster.
- by David Biller and Maircio Savarese
Octopus dreams more like gifs than visions: scientist
A new octopus study suggests the creatures experience short bursts of ‘active sleep’ not unlike humans, but without the “complex symbolic plots”.
- by Will Dunham
After more than 300,000 deaths, Bolsonaro calls for COVID ‘coordination’
The outbreak is reaching its worst ever stage in the country, fanned by a patchy vaccine rollout, an infectious new variant and a lack of nationwide public health restrictions.
- by Pedro Fonseca
As virus cases soar, Bolsonaro’s critics are arrested under security laws
As Brazil records almost 3000 COVID deaths a day, four protesters and a YouTube star were arrested last week for calling the controversial president “genocidal”.
- by Mauricio Savarese
Why Chile is a world leader in vaccinations
“We’ve been doing this for a long time,” said Soledad Martínez, an assistant professor of public health at the University of Chile.
- by Antonia Noori Farzan
Vaccine mascot goes missing, some Brazilians fear the worst
The last time Zé Gotinha was seen publicly in a ceremony in Brasilia was December 16, launching the national vaccination program.
- by Marcelo Silva de Sousa
Former Bolivian president behind bars, alleges persecution over coup claims
Jeanine Anez and a raft of ministers and security officials face charges of terrorism, sedition and conspiracy over an alleged coup against Bolivia’s 13-year socialist government.
- by Daniel Ramos and Monica Machicao