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Brazil and Venezuela will reopen their border after a two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022-02-25

India surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the third country to do so after the United States and Brazil. India recorded its last 100,000 deaths in less than a month. Experts warn that the real number of deaths could be much higher as many are not officially recorded; some models speculate that about a million people may have actually died.
2021-05-24

New York reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. The patient is a Brooklyn woman in her 90s in Mount Sinai Hospital who had no travel history.
2021-03-20

India reports the highest single-day record of more than 62,000 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the country's total to 2,025,409. This total makes India the third country to pass two million cases, after the United States and Brazil.
2020-08-7

At least 10 people are killed in a prison riot between rival gangs in Natal, Brazil.
2017-01-15

Indonesia recalls its envoy to Brazil due to ongoing tension caused by Indonesia's recent execution of a Brazilian drug smuggler.
2015-02-21

Seventeen people are killed and 34 others are injured in a bus crash near the town of Taperas, Bolivia, along a newly built highway to Brazil.
2013-01-24

3 people are trapped and 6 others are injured after a 30-storey building collapses in Belém, Pará, Brazil.
2011-01-30

In the world's largest share offer, Brazilian semi-public energy company Petrobras raises US$67 billion.
2010-09-24

The Instituto Butantan in São Paulo, Brazil, which had one of the world's largest snake collections, is destroyed by fire.
2010-05-17