Health & Science

Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC
Workers at the largest open cast iron ore mine in the world threatened by Covid-19 outbreak

The Brazilian municipality of Parauapebas, in the state of Pará, which houses part of the Serra dos Carajás, where the largest open-cast iron ore mine in the world is located, will carry out mass testing for Covid-19, reaching about half the population.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC
Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths; in Sao Paulo City partial lifting of the lockdown delayed

Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC
EU starts overhaul of drug manufacturing emphasizing in production and access to medicines

The European Commission on Tuesday started a process that could lead to reforms of drug manufacturing to limit shortages of vaccines and antibiotics and make medicines more easily available.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC
Uptick in domestic violence in Chile becomes politically controversial; women's minister forced to apologize

The Chilean new women's minister has been forced to apologize and pull a controversial advertisement aimed at curbing an increase in domestic violence with the coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:05 UTC
WHO's Americas branch PAHO calls on US to keep countries in the region combat the pandemic

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) regional director for the Americas urged the United States on Tuesday to keep helping countries in the region to fight the novel coronavirus even as the Trump administration leaves the UN agency.
Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:00 UTC
Virus death toll in UK reaches 48,000, according to National Statistics Office

The number of suspected and confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Britain has risen to 48,000, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures tallied all fatalities in which COVID-19 was suspected or mentioned on death certificates up to May 22.
Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC
WHO experts deny Covid-19 was losing potency, as asserted by Italian epidemiologist

Two World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency.
Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:57 UTC
Trump delivers to his friend Bolsonaro two million doses of hydroxychloroquine

The United States has delivered two million doses of the anti-malarial medicine hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to Brazil to fight COVID-19, the White House said Sunday, though the drug has not been proven effective against the coronavirus.
Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Brazil becomes the country with Covid-19 fourth highest deaths toll: 29,314

Brazil reported a record 33,274 new cases of the new coronavirus this weekend, the health ministry said, and the death toll surpassed that of France and now ranks below only the United States, Britain, and Italy.
Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:29 UTC
NASA astronauts enter the Space Station after landmark journey on the Crew Dragon

NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise.