Brazil recorded 29,916 additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 786 deaths from COVID-19, Health Ministry figures showed on Monday.

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The vast majority of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is illegal, and President Jair Bolsonaro's promise to eliminate it looks doubtful given a lack of transparency on authorized land use, researchers said Monday.

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As some Brazilian states strain to get coronavirus vaccines to complete immunizing their seniors, a city in the interior of Sao Paulo state devoted all its doses Sunday to a mass immunization for all residents 18 to 60 years old as part of a medical research project for the pandemic.The task forces set up 45 vaccination points at voting sites in Botucatu and people were directed to get their shots at their normal election…

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BRASILIA -- Brazil recorded 40,941 additional confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,036 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Sunday. Read More

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of unconventional drugs he says can ease the country's COVID-19 crisis.

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Black Brazilians demonstrated in the country's two largest cities on Thursday to protest against racism and police violence toward their communities in a local version of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, with some accusing the country's president of genocide.

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The four most worrying coronavirus variants have been detected in virtually all countries and territories of the Americas, said WHO expert.

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BRASILIA -- Several big international banks have raised their forecasts for Brazilian economic growth this year, after a closely-watched central bank index of economic activity for March suggested Latin America's largest economy expanded in the first quarter. Read More

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