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Brazil’s COVID-19 deaths surge past UK, WHO says hospital system coping

GENEVA/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll overtook Britain’s yesterday to become the second highest in the world with 41,828 dead, but the...

Brazil’s biggest cities start reopening as COVID-19 surges

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s most populous state Sao Paulo reported a record number of COVID-19 deaths for the second day running yesterday...

Brazil takes down COVID-19 data, hiding soaring death toll

(Reuters) – Brazil removed from public view months of data on its COVID-19 epidemic on Saturday, as President Jair Bolsonaro defended delays and changes...

Lockdowns may have averted 3 million deaths in Europe by curbing COVID-19 -study

LONDON, (Reuters) – Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and...

Brazil reports total of 37,312 coronavirus deaths, says health ministry

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered 37,312 total coronavirus deaths while overall cases in the country reached 685,427, according to data from the health...

Bolsonaro defends later, partial release of Brazil COVID-19 data

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday defended his government’s move to partially withhold official data on the scale of the world’s...

Bolsonaro threatens WHO exit as COVID-19 kills ‘a Brazilian per minute’

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro threatened yesterday to pull Brazil out of the World Health Organization after the U.N. agency warned governments about...

Coronavirus deaths surge in Brazil, Mexico as regional leaders look to reopen

RIO DE JANEIRO/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The number of coronavirus deaths in Brazil blew past Italy’s toll yesterday, while Mexico reported a record...

Deaths jump in Brazil’s indigenous tribes as virus spreads

BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in...

Mexico overtakes US coronavirus daily deaths, sets records

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico overtook the United States in daily reported deaths from the novel coronavirus for the first time yesterday, with the...

Brazil looks to reopen despite record coronavirus deaths

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according...

Five dead in newest Ebola outbreak in Congo, UNICEF says

(CNN)Five people, including a 15-year-old girl, have died of Ebola in a fresh outbreak of the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the...
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A Visitor form UK died in Jamaica of COVID-19

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Sandals founder Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart dies aged 79 following ‘short battle with illness’

Travel pioneer Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who founded Jamaica's Sandals resort, has died. Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1941. He grew up on...

Barbados Confirms 161 New COVID-19 Cases

Barbados has announced 161 cases of COVID-19 at the Island’s Dodds prison. The discovery has prompted a massive contact tracing exercise. Authorities say the cases relate...