Sources: AP
A University of Campinas study finds that the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine is less effective against the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant, which originated in Brazil. 2021-07-9
Brazil surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-04-29
Brazil reports a record 100,158 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. 2021-03-25
Alberta reports its first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil linked in a community transmission. 2021-03-24
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
Minnesota reports the first U.S. case of the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 found in Brazil. The patient is a Twin Cities resident who traveled to Brazil. 2021-01-25
Germany reports their first case of the more contagious B.1.1.248 variant in a person who travelled from Brazil to Hesse. 2021-01-22
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 54,771 new cases and that there are now 1,032,913 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country, becoming the second country in the world, after the United States, to surpass one million cases. 2020-06-19