Sources: Reuters
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 reports a record 3,780 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thus bringing the nationwide death toll to 317,646. 2021-03-30
Maine reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant, which was originally detected in Brazil. 2021-03-26
Brazil reports a record 90,570 new confirmed cases from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 11,871,390. 2021-03-19
Spain will restrict travel to South Africa and Brazil due to concerns about new variants of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-2
The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency announces that the country has returned documents from União Química seeking approval for Russia's Sputnik V vaccine as it didn't meet the criteria. 2021-01-16
Mexico exceeds 100,000 deaths, becoming the fourth country to do so after Brazil, the United States, and India. 2020-11-19
Argentina surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth country to do so after the United States, India, Brazil, and Russia. 2020-10-19