Two Brazilian governors test positive for coronavirus
Two Brazilian state governors tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday, in the tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon rainforest state of Pará, becoming the latest leaders to get the disease as it spreads across the country.
‘Bigger than winning the war’: WWII vet, aged 99, survives coronavirus in Brazil
World War Two veteran Ermando Piveta, aged 99, became the oldest Brazilian to recover from the coronavirus on Tuesday.
Medecins Sans Frontieres plans first Canada project as COVID-19 threatens homeless
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is designing a 400-bed facility for homeless people in Toronto in its first Canadian project, a top official said on Tuesday, prompted by the risks posed by the coronavirus to vulnerable sections of society.
Trump says halting World Health Organization funding over its handling of virus
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he has instructed his administration to at least temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Exclusive: Brazil battles dozens of coronavirus cases on offshore oil rigs
There have been 126 confirmed cases of the coronavirus among oil and gas workers in Brazil, including 74 people who were recently on offshore oil platforms, regulator ANP told Reuters on Tuesday, exposing an outbreak far worse than previously thought.
Nigeria’s northern economic hub Kano imposes week-long lockdown over coronavirus
The northern Nigeria economic powerhouse state of Kano will impose a seven-day lockdown to contain an outbreak of the new coronavirus, a spokesman for the governor said on Tuesday.
Peru will emerge from ‘economic hibernation’ by May, elections date safe: president
Peru hopes to gradually emerge from the economic hibernation aimed at halting the spread of the novel coronavirus and return to “more or less” normal levels of productive activity in 2021, President Martin Vizcarra said on Tuesday.
Paraguay has South America’s best record on coronavirus after early lockdown
As a global coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, landlocked Paraguay did not wait, imposing a strict lockdown in early March, before neighboring countries. The result: the fewest cases in the region.
Brazil cocaine kingpin nabbed in Mozambique as gang expands
One of Brazil’s top cocaine traffickers has been arrested in Mozambique, officials in both countries said, underlining the growing global footprint of the First Capital Command (PCC) gang, Brazil’s most powerful criminal organization.
Televised raid on illegal Amazon mining angers Brazil government, leads to sacking
Brazil’s Environment Minister Ricardo Salles has fired the country’s top environmental enforcement officer, according to a government notice published on Tuesday, after a news program broadcast a dramatic raid on illegal mining in the Amazon rainforest…
