Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Record twelve month deforestation in Brazil's Amazon: area equivalent to Lebanon

  

  Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019, revised government data showed, during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Deforestation of more than 10,000 square kilometers in one year

  

  The Brazilian Amazon has never lost so many square kilometers in eleven years. Between August 2018 and July 2019, 10,129 square kilometers of jungle were lost, according to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro limits information on the epidemic in Brazil, “...they don't reflect the moment the country is in”

  

  Brazil removed from public view months of data on its coronavirus epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes to official record-keeping of the world's second-largest Covid19 outbreak.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:12 UTC

  Hot winter in Brazil: rival demonstrations for and against Bolsonaro in main cities

  

  Brazilians took to the streets in Sao Paulo and Brasilia for rival demonstrations on Sunday for and against President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been widely criticized over his response to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 14:33 UTC

  Pirralha blasts Bolsonaro for failing to manage the coronavirus pandemic

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has failed in managing the coronavirus crisis, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Friday, a day after a record rise in deaths in the South American nation.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 14:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro threatens to pull Brazil out of WHO, a “partisan political organization”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro threatened on Friday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about the risk of lifting lockdowns before slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 18:45 UTC

  Brazil's second consecutive record number of Covid-19 daily deaths

  

  Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.

• 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.

• 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.