Sources: The Rio Times
The Brazilian Senate votes to charge President Jair Bolsonaro over his controversial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The charges include crimes against humanity, incitement to crime, falsification of documents and the violation of social rights. Brazil's COVID-19 death toll is second only to that of the United States. 2021-10-27
Brazil surpasses 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, becoming the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-06-19
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
Brazil surpasses 400,000 COVID-19 deaths, becoming the second country to do so after the United States. 2021-04-29
Prime Minister Jean Castex announces the suspension of flights from Brazil in order to prevent the spread of new variants of COVID-19 in the country. 2021-04-13
Alberta reports its first two cases of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil linked in a community transmission. 2021-03-24
Brazil reports a record 1,910 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 259,271. 2021-03-4
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
Sinovac Biotech's CoronaVac appears to be safe in providing protection against COVID-19, as preliminary results of Phase III clinical trial in Brazil show. São Paulo's Instituto Butantan, one of Brazil's leading biomedical research centres carrying out the trials, says CoronaVac proved to be safe after its two doses were applied to 9,000 volunteers, but said data on how effective it is in protecting people against COVID-19 will not be released until it has been tested on all 15,000 volunteers in newly expanded trials. 2020-10-19
Brazil's Ministry of Health reports 641 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the death toll in the country to over 50,000. 2020-06-21