Brazil has now surpassed a million COVID-19 cases, a grim milestone for the country with the second most coronavirus infections in the world. It’s been averaging about a thousand deaths per day for the last month

Brazil is poised to overtake the United States for most total COVID-19 infections and deaths globally — but far-right President Jair Bolsanaro is preoccupied with politics and discredits the pandemic’s risk and response.

«I can’t breathe!» «Jeg får ikke puste!» George Floyds siste ord er blitt slagordet for en verdensomfattende bevegelse

“I can’t breathe.” The final words gasped by George Floyd are now a global meme. They were recorded on the mobile phone of a bystander while Mr. Floyd was being suffocated to death by a police officer in Minneapolis.

Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals wearing a face mask she hoped would keep her alive.

The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the quality of governments around the world. Many national leaders have failed the test—in contrast to the leaders of regions and cities

Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into the megacities of developing countries.

The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be receding in some parts of Western Europe, East Asia and North America, but it’s rapidly taking-off in Latin America, Africa and South Asia.

Head of Igarape Institute in Rio de Janeiro gives us more on the absurd situation in Brazil, due to the lack of political leadership and the denial of the severness of the pandemic

To say that COVID-19 changes everything is already a cliché. But it’s also true.