Tag: Sao Paulo

• 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.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Sao Paulo City will gradually lift lockdown beginning Monday June first

  

  Despite a record number of new coronavirus cases reported in Brazil this week, Sao Paulo –the largest city in South America and home to Brazil's financial hub– will allow shops and malls to reopen after two months of loosely enforced quarantine.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro disregards public health advice while Sao Paulo struggles with a healthcare system virtually collapsed

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro again disregarded public health advice amid the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday to snap photos with lockdown protesters, as the country’s largest city of Sao Paulo struggles to keep its healthcare system afloat with public hospitals at 90 percent capacity.

• Saturday, April 25th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Brazil in turmoil following the resignation of Moro complaining of “political interference” from Bolsonaro

  

  Sergio Moro, Brazil's justice and security minister resigned on Friday after clashing with President Jair Bolsonaro over the sacking of the federal police chief. Moro, a former anti-corruption judge, hit out at “political interference” in the federal police, saying he could not do his job without “autonomy” for the force.

• Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  February's services sector confirms Brazil is heading for recession

  

  Services activity in Brazil shrank 1% in February, official figures showed on Wednesday, the biggest monthly fall in over 18 months and another sign Latin America's largest economy was already in go-slow mode before the coronavirus crisis erupted.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Hundreds flee in a major break out of four Sao Paulo jails

  

  Hundreds of prisoners broke out of four Brazilian jails on Monday, the day before their day-release privileges were due to be suspended over the coronavirus outbreak, Sao Paulo state prison authorities and local media reported.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Brazilian Executive and Congress pledge to pass “administrative reform” bill

  

  Brazil’s government will submit a bill that would reduce public sector costs and benefits and make it easier to fire workers to Congress “in a week or two,” Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Thursday.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Petrobras asks Sao Paulo stock exchange to withdraw it from good governance certification

  

  Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras said it has asked to withdraw its participation in a program certifying good governance and limited political interference in state companies set up by the Sao Paulo stock exchange.

• Wednesday, December 18th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Chinese consortium wins contract to build and operate Brazil's second longest bridge

  

  A consortium of state-owned Chinese companies was awarded the contract to build and operate what will be the second-longest bridge in Brazil. Under the project, a bridge will be built spanning the famed Bay of All Saints, which connects Salvador, the capital of the northeastern Bahia state, with Itaparica Island. The project also involves the construction of related roads.

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Several people trampled to death in Sao Paulo favela during a police raid

  

  At least nine people were trampled to death and two others were injured early on Sunday in the chaotic aftermath of a police raid in a poor Sao Paulo neighbourhood, authorities said. Residents blamed the police for causing the panicky stampede, local media reported.