Sources: AP
Brazilian drug regulator Anvisa approves the use of the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine for children between the ages of 6 and 11 years. 2022-01-20
Brazil reports its first cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was first discovered in India. The variant had been detected among a group of six crew members of a ship travelling from South Africa to deliver iron ore in São Luís, Maranhão. 2021-05-20
Georgia reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. It was found in a resident in Newton County. 2021-03-23
Massachusetts confirms its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant that originated in Brazil. 2021-03-16
Brazil surpasses 10 million cases of COVID-19, being the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-02-18
Peru surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth Latin American country to surpass the milestone after Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. 2020-12-22
France registers a record 52,010 new confirmed infections over the past 24 hours, according to a statement from the health ministry, taking the nationwide total to 1,138,507 and becoming the world's fifth highest number of cases after the United States, India, Brazil and Russia. 2020-10-25
India surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the third country to reach that milestone behind the United States and Brazil. 2020-10-3
Brazil reports 1,113 deaths, the country's highest in two weeks, thus bringing the death toll to 133,119. 2020-09-15