Sources: AP
The Ministry of Health announces that Brazil will begin offering booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to immunocompromised people and people over the age of 70 who received their second dose more than six months ago and will also shorten the interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines to eight weeks beginning in mid-September. 2021-08-25
Turkey surpasses 5 million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth country to do so after the United States, India, Brazil, and France. 2021-05-10
Brazil reports a record 4,249 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 345,025. 2021-04-8
Brazil reports a record 2,841 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 282,400. 2021-03-16
Ireland reports its first three cases of the Lineage P.1 variant in people who travelled from Brazil. 2021-02-19
India reports their first four cases of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa and one case of the Lineage P.1 variant from Brazil in people who traveled internationally. 2021-02-16
Argentina reports its first cases of two different Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 variants in two people infected with the P.1 variant and two others infected with the P.2 variant. 2021-02-8
Oklahoma reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant originated from Brazil in a woman who had a travel history. 2021-02-5
Brazil surpasses 200,000 deaths of COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the United States, as a record 87,843 cases are reported in the past 24 hours. 2021-01-7
Brazil's Chief of Staff of the Presidency Walter Souza Braga Netto tests positive for COVID-19. 2020-08-3