Tag: Sao Paulo

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Brazil's trials indicate Chinese vaccine is effective, according to US media

  

  Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd's Covid-19 vaccine has shown to be effective in late-stage trials in Brazil, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people involved in the vaccine's development.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Boeing 737 MAX returns to the skies on a commercial flight Sao Paulo/Porto Alegre

  

  More than 20 months after it was grounded following two deadly crashes, Boeing's 737 MAX returned to the skies on Wednesday with an incident-free commercial flight in Brazil, said AFP journalists on board.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil's municipal runoffs confirm voters rejected Bolsonaro and Lula da Silva's supported candidates

  

  Brazilian voters in 57 cities including 18 state capitals returned to the polls for run-off mayoral elections on Sunday amid a surge in cases of COVID-19 and violence involving assassinations and attacks on candidates.

• Thursday, November 26th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  At least 41 people killed in a crash of a bus and a truck in Sao Paulo

  

  At least 41 people were killed and 10 injured on Wednesday when a bus and a truck crashed in southeastern Brazil, police said. The bus, which was carrying employees on their way to work at a textile factory, collided with the truck just before 7 am on a motorway outside the town of Taguai, in Sao Paulo state, police said.

• Thursday, November 12th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro's clash with Sao Paulo governor over the Chinese vaccine tainted with politics

  

  Brazil’s national health regulator allowed clinical trials of a Chinese-developed Covid-19 vaccine to resume on Wednesday, two days after suspending them in what critics called a decision tainted by politics.

• Monday, November 2nd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazilians march in Sao Paulo against the Chinese vaccine and mandatory immunization

  

  More than 300 Brazilians gathered on São Paulo's main commercial thoroughfare on Sunday to protest state Governor João Doria's support for mandatory COVID-19 immunization and testing the potential vaccine developed by China's Sinovac.

• Saturday, October 24th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Brazil's health regulator allows the import of six million doses of a coronavirus vaccine from China

  

  Brazil's health regulator has authorized the import from China of a potential vaccine against the coronavirus, just days after President Jair Bolsonaro insisted he wouldn't allow doses to be shipped from the Asian nation.

• Saturday, October 17th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  World's largest meatpacker, Brazil's J&F, pleads guilty in US court on corruption charges

  

  The owner of the world’s largest meatpacker pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court this week to paying nearly US$ 180 million in bribes to top Brazilian officials in exchange for state-backed financing used to go on a buying spree in the U.S.

• Monday, October 12th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  One of Brazil's top criminal bosses on the run following a judicial mishap

  

  One of Brazil's biggest crime bosses has gone on the run after being briefly freed from prison the previous day. André Oliveira Macedo, also known as André do Rap, was released from a high-security prison on Saturday - but this decision was revoked just hours later. He has been missing since.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro released from hospital following surgery to remove a bladder stone

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was released from the hospital Saturday, the government said, a day after he underwent surgery to remove a bladder stone.