Tag: Rio de Janeiro

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  Sea turtles spotted next to Rio's coastal airport as flights drops dramatically

  

  Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazil’s tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro, as the scream of jet engines that would normally keep them away has been largely silenced due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Pandemic: Brazil reports over 11,000 deaths on Sunday and 162,699 positive cases

  

  Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 11,000 deaths, according to figures released on Sunday by the Ministry of Health.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro's anti confinement rally in Brasilia attracts thousands

  

  Brazil's President Jail Bolsonaro railed against the country's lockdown on Sunday in a speech to thousands of anti-confinement demonstrators as the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections passed 100,000, with more than 7,000 deaths.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  With oil royalties plummeting, Rio state challenged by investment funds

  

  Already grappling with one of Brazil’s most severe outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and a budget deep in the red, Rio de Janeiro state faces a potential threat to its solvency at the hands of investment giants PIMCO and Dodge & Cox.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Drug gangs impose a strict curfew in Rio do Janeiro's favelas to combat “the disease of the rich”

  

  The “baile funk” dance parties have been called off. Some open-air drug markets are closed for business. Gangs and militias have imposed strict curfews. Coronavirus is coming, and Rio de Janeiro's lawless favelas are gearing up for the onslaught.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro authorities order people out of the beaches and closed Christ the Redeemer statue

  

  Anyone hoping to escape wall-to-wall coronavirus coverage with a day at the beach can forget about it in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities armed with megaphones blared out messages on Monday ordering everyone home.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Brazilian football suspended; Flamengo's coach tested positive for coronavirus

  

  Flamengo coach Jorge Jesus has tested positive for coronavirus and is under quarantine in Rio de Janeiro while doctors perform a second confirmatory test, he and his club said on Monday.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Suspect of killing Rio city council shot dead in the north of Brazil

  

  A suspect in the 2018 assassination of an outspoken Afro-Brazilian member of Rio de Janeiro's city council was shot dead on Sunday after he fired on police sent to arrest him, Brazilian authorities said.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  “Contaminated drinking water” in Rio: run on bottled-water in supermarkets

  

  Widespread complaints over foul-smelling drinking water in Rio de Janeiro have triggered a run on supermarket bottled water, though the public utility denied any health risk on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:25 UTC

  Swiss tourist in critical condition after mistakenly entering a favela

  

  A septuagenarian tourist to Rio de Janeiro is in critical condition from a gunshot wound after mistakenly entering one of the city's favelas. Police said in a statement that they rescued two Swiss tourists injured in a mugging on Sunday night.