SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil topped 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, becoming the second country to do so amid a spike in infections that has seen the South American country report record ...

Food distribution to homeless population in Curitiba, in southern state of Paraná. (Credit: Valmir Fernandes [Photo by Coletivo Marmitas da Terra / CC BY 4.0] A study released by Brazil’s Health ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - The corner bars are jammed once again with rambunctious crowds in Brazil's largest cities, but health experts warn that the easing of COVID-19 restrictions is ...

Brazil has the third-highest number of novel coronavirus cases in the world, according to official figures released Monday, a troubling surge for a country struggling to respond to the pandemic. With ...

Amid the push to get the COVID-19 vaccine to many as possible to stem the pandemic, a new variant of the coronavirus that exploded in Brazil and has since been reported in the U.S. is causing concern ...

Health workers on strike against the privatization of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The banner reads “Nisia the enemy of the SUS [Public Health System]” [Photo: Mayara Alves/SINSPREV/RJ] ...

BRASILIA, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccinations ...

Orlando Martínez had barely heard of COVID-19 when 26 members of his Warao ethnic group came down with tell-tale symptoms of the illness. “At first they got a fever and couldn’t eat. Then, they got ...