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02.10.2020 / 21:46

Brazil's Bolsonaro baffles evangelicals with top court pick

SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday nominated a judge with a record of flexible rulings to the country’s Supreme Court, frustrating evangelical members of his conservative base who had been promised one of their own for the opening. Bolsonaro announced his nomination of Kassio Marques on Thursday during a live broadcast on Facebook and submitted his name to the country’s official gazette on Friday.

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President Trump joins list of coronavirus-infected world leaders

President Trump has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and in doing so, he joins a growing list of world leaders who have previously contracted the disease.Since the start of the pandemic, at least seven major world leaders have tested positive for the virus, the most notable ones being Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Trump's age, 74, places him within a category of people deemed to be at the highest risk of severe complications from the virus.RELATED: President Trump and first lady test positive for COVID-19"People in their 60s or 70s are, in general, at higher risk for severe illness," the CDC says on its website.

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Bolsonaro to world: Brazil is victim of environmental smear

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain.Speaking first in the General Debate of the U.N.'s General Assembly, as is tradition for the Brazilian leader, Bolsonaro said that the South American nation’s agribusiness sector has succeeded in boosting agricultural exports to feed a growing global population, which has made it a target. “We are victims of one of the most brutal disinformation campaigns about the Amazon and the Pantanal wetlands,” Bolsonaro said.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro under fire for not pushing mandatory coronavirus vaccine

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are again speaking out against the leader’s stance on the coronavirus pandemic, this time rejecting his view that vaccination for the virus shouldn’t be mandatory.Bolsonaro’s first such comments came Monday, when he told a supporter, “No one can force anyone to get a vaccine.” He repeated it Thursday night during a live broadcast on Facebook, adding his opposition to administering vaccines that are yet to be proven on Brazilian soil. Brazil’s leader Bolsonaro says no one will be forced to take coronavirus vaccine “It has been proven in other countries, but not here in Brazil,” he said, without specifying to which potential vaccine he was referring.

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Brazil’s leader Bolsonaro says no one will be forced to take coronavirus vaccine

Brazil records 566 new coronavirus deaths over past 24 hours “No one can force anyone to get a vaccine,” he said in response to a question from a supporter, according to a video posted on social media.Brazil has become a hot spot in recent months, with 3,908,272 confirmed cases and 121,381 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.On Monday, the Health Ministry reported 45,961 new cases of the coronavirus and 553 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.Bolsonaro, who recently recovered from the coronavirus, has downplayed its importance, calling it a “small flu,” ignoring scientific recommendations and opposing quarantine efforts by Brazilian governors and mayors.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest

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Women have been better leaders than men during the pandemic

Covid-19, has communicated with an uninformed machismo that has provoked reactions ranging from shock to satire. Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, the runner-up in coronavirus deaths, has pooh-poohed the disease as a “little flu."By contrast, Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, which has generally managed the outbreak well, has impressed with explanations of the epidemiological R0 factor that went “viral" for their sobriety and clarity.

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Amazon rainforest continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it

NOVO PROGRESSO, Brazil - A year ago this month, the forest around the town of Novo Progresso erupted into flames — the first major blazes in the Brazilian Amazon's dry season that ultimately saw more than 100,000 fires and spurred global outrage against the government’s inability or unwillingness to protect the rainforest.This year, President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to control the burning — typically started by local farmers to clear land for cattle or to grow soybeans, one of Brazil’s top exports.

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Brazil reaches grim milestone - 100,000 deaths from COVID-19

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Brazil surpasses 100,000 coronavirus deaths, three million cases

Brazil has surpassed 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths and three million cases of infection, crossing the grim milestone after President Jair Bolsonaro said he had a "clear conscience" on his response to the outbreak.

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‘I regret all the deaths,’ Brazil’s Bolsonaro says as over 100,000 die from coronavirus

Brazil surpassed a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday night, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the disease.The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 1,000 daily deaths from the pandemic since late May and reported 905 for the latest 24-hour period.The Health Ministry said there had been a total of 3,012,412 confirmed infections with the new coronavirus — death and infection tolls second only to the United States. And as in many nations, experts believe that both numbers are severe undercounts due to insufficient testing.

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Illegal deforestation in Brazil soars amid climate of impunity

Herton EscobarDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has risen sharply in the past year—again.

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Bolsonaro tells Brazilians to face up to catching coronavirus

Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, has said that nearly everyone will probably end up catching the new coronavirus, and he has urged Brazilians to "face up to it" and saying there was nothing to fear.

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Brazilian President, who tested positive for covid, says he has 'mold' in lungs

Jair Bolsonaro said he was taking antibiotics for an infection that left him feeling weak, chuckling in an online video about "mold" in his lungs, having spent weeks in isolation after catching the novel coronavirus."I just did a blood test. I was feeling kind of weak yesterday.

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Global coronavirus cases are on the rise. But not everywhere.

coronavirus cases.So far, 16.3 million people have been infected with the virus across the globe while 650,918 people have died, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University.Reuters said it took five months to get to one million cases, 23 more days to get to three million and 87 more to get to 10 million. But which countries are still spiking?Let’s start with the United States — the epicentre of the virus.There are a variety of components that factor into why some countries are more heavily impacted by COVID-19 than others, experts previously interviewed by Global News said, including a country’s population’s median age, whether or not the country is a destination tourism zone, and government policies.

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Brazil president recovers from coronavirus and meets supporters without mask to celebrate

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was spotted greeting supporters without a mask after confirming he tested negative for coronavirus within days of testing positive for a third time.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's negative test for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has announced he has tested negative for coronavirus - more than two weeks after being diagnosed on 7 July - attributing his recovery to an unproven malaria drug.

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Two weeks after diagnosis, Brazil President says he tested negative for Covid-19

Brasilia: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that he has tested negative for the new coronavirus, based on a fourth test since he said July 7 that he had the virus.“Good morning everyone," Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook after reporting that the test was “negative".The 65-year-old leader didn't say when he did the new test. On Wednesday, he had tested positive for the third time.Bolsonaro also posted a photo of himself with a box of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, although it has not been proven effective against the virus.Now that Bolsonaro is clear of the virus, he is expected to return to mingling in crowds as he used to do before his diagnosis.

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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he tested negative for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he has tested negative for the new coronavirus, based on a fourth test since he said July 7 that he had the virus.“Good morning everyone,” Bolsonaro wrote on Facebook after reporting that the test was “negative.” Brazil’s Bolsonaro claims hydroxychloroquine will cure his coronavirus despite no evidence The 65-year-old leader didn’t say when he did the new test.

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In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly

Boris Johnson (l), Prime Minister of Great Britain, welcomes US President Donald Trump before the start of the working session of a NATO summit. WASHINGTON (AP) - The countries that top the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are not necessarily the poorest, the richest or even the most densely populated.

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Populist leaders struggle to fight coronavirus; experts link it to distrust of science

COVID-19 deaths globally are not necessarily the poorest, the richest, or even the most densely populated. But they do have one thing in common: They are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders.Populism in politics means pushing policies that are popular with “the people,” not the elites and the experts.

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Brazil sets daily record with 68,000 new virus cases

Brazil has recorded a new daily record of coronavirus cases with nearly 68,000 infections, a sign Covid-19 is still far from being brought under control in the hard-hit country.

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Brazil sets daily record of new coronavirus cases

COVID-19 is still far from being brought under control in the hard-hit country.The health ministry said 67,860 new infections and 1,284 deaths had been reported in the past 24 hours in Brazil, which has the second-biggest outbreak in the world after the United States.The South American country of 212 million people has recorded 2.2 million infections and 82,771 deaths from the new coronavirus since confirming its first case five months ago.Experts say under-testing means the real numbers are probably much higher.Brazil has struggled to set a strategy for responding to the pandemic.President Jair Bolsonaro faces criticism for downplaying the virus and attacking social distancing measures adopted by state and local authorities.The far-right

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We’re close to 15 million casesThe world is a whisker away from hitting 15 million covid-19 cases. On Wednesday, the global count stood at 14.97 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, and deaths at 617,410.

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Brazil deaths reach over 80,000, Trump U-turn on masks

Brazil's coronavirus death toll has surpassed 80,000, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic.

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Brazil Covid-19 cases reach two million, doubling in less than a month

Brazil passed the two million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with little sign that the rate of increase is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the outbreak.

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It took 27 days for Brazil to go from 1 million coronavirus cases to 2 million

Brazil on Thursday passed the 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases mark, with little sign that the rate of increase is slowing as anger grows over President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the outbreak.Just 27 days have passed since Brazil, which has the world’s second-largest outbreak after the United States, reached one million cases. In recent weeks, there have been nearly 40,000 confirmed new cases per day, according to government figures.

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Coronavirus: Brazil President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19 a 2nd time

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro revealed on Wednesday evening that he’s tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time, suggesting he has yet to recover from the infection which was first diagnosed earlier in July.

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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus a 2nd time

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday he has tested positive for the new coronavirus for a second time, following his July 7 announcement that he had COVID-19.“I did the test yesterday, and at night the result came back that I am still positive for coronavirus,” Bolsonaro said.

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Coronavirus infections surge past 13 million with death toll nearing 600,000

coronavirus have surpassed 13 million worldwide, with the death toll now approaching 600,000.It took just five days to climb to 13 million cases yesterday from 12 million recorded on July 8, according to a Reuters tally. The number of cases is around triple that of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to the World Health Organisation.Covid-19 is on the rise most dramatically in The Americas.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s wife, daughters test negative for coronavirus

Jair Bolsonaro who is sick with the new coronavirus, said on Saturday that she and her two daughters had tested negative for the virus. Brazil’s Bolsonaro claims hydroxychloroquine will cure his coronavirus despite no evidence The president announced that he had tested positive on Tuesday, and said he was quarantining while also taking the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine.More than 1.8 million people in Brazil have tested positive for coronavirus and over 70,000 have died.

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Trump still sees hydroxychloroquine as promising Covid-19 cure: White House

hydroxychloroquine as a very promising prophylactic but that every person should not take it unless they get a prescription from their doctor," White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said at a news conference.Trump told reporters in May he had started taking hydroxychloroquine after two White House staffers tested positive for COVID-19. His doctor said last month that Trump had suffered from no side effects after a two-week course of the malaria drug, which can cause heart problems.Earlier this week, another world leader, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, said he had tested positive for the virus and was taking hydroxychloroquine.

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Coronavirus: Bolivia president, Venezuela’s No. 2 leader both test positive

coronavirus, just days after Brazil’s leader tested positive as the pandemic hits hard at some of Latin America’s political elite.Three Cabinet ministers in the administration of Bolivian leader Jeanine Anez have also tested positive for the virus, including Health Minister Eidy Roca and Presidency Minister Yerko Nunez, who is hospitalized. Coronavirus: U.S.

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Brazilian Press Association to sue President Bolsonaro for putting reporters at risk of contracting coronavirus

After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced he was tested positive for COVID-19, the Brazilian Press Association announced Wednesday its intention to sue the president for putting reporters at risk of contracting the coronavirus during the briefing.

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro claims hydroxychoriquine will cure his coronavirus despite no evidence

Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective against COVID-19.Bolsonaro said he tested positive for the new coronavirus on Tuesday after months of downplaying its severity while deaths mounted rapidly inside the country. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus The president told reporters he underwent a lung X-ray on Monday after experiencing fever, muscle aches and malaise.

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PM Modi wishes Brazilian President speedy recovery from Covid-19

COVID-19. "My friend President @jairbolsonaro (Jair Bolsonaro), my prayers and best wishes for your speedy recovery," Modi tweeted in Portuguese and English.My friend President @jairbolsonaro, my prayers and best wishes for your speedy recovery.Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had on Tuesday said that he has tested positive for coronavirus.Meanwhile, the Brazilian President said he was confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective against COVID-19.

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Coronavirus cases in US, Latin America and the Caribbean rise to over 6 million

The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has risen to over 3 million, after a daily record of 60,209 new cases.

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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he had tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he was in good health despite running a fever.

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Has COVID-19

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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for coronavirus

coronavirus.Mr Bolsonaro confirmed the results of his test while speaking to reporters in capital Brasilia.The president, who has previously dismissed the virus as a "little flu", said he began feeling unwell on Sunday but insists his condition has improved since having treatment.Wearing a mask, he said: "I'm well, normal.

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Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever.

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Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives at the Emergency Aid Extension ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, Brazil, on June 30, 2020.On July 7, it was reported that Bolsonaro tested positive for COVID-19. (Photo by Andre Borges/NurPhoto via RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19 after months of downplaying the virus’ severity.Bolsonaro confirmed the test results while wearing a mask and speaking to reporters in capital Brasilia."I'm well, normal.

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Brazil’s President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday.This comes a day after the president said his lungs were “clean” after taking a COVID-19 test. Local media reported he had symptoms associated with the respiratory disease.Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down the impact of the virus, even as Brazil has suffered one of the world’s worst outbreaks, with more than 1.6 million confirmed cases and 65,000 related deaths, according to official data on Monday.Bolsonaro told supporters outside the presidential palace that he had just visited the hospital and been tested.“I can’t get very close,” he said in comments recorded by Foco do Brasil, a pro-government YouTube channel.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro takes virus test after showing symptoms

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who has long minimised the risks posed by the coronavirus, has said he has been tested after showing symptoms including a fever.

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Coronavirus: Brazilian President Bolsonaro tested for COVID-19 again

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he had undergone another test for the novel coronavirus, after local media reported he had symptoms associated with the COVID-19 respiratory disease, including a fever.Bolsonaro told supporters outside the presidential palace that he had just visited the hospital and been tested for the virus, adding that an exam had shown his lungs “clean.” Bolsonaro’s concealment of Brazilian coronavirus data a survival move: experts CNN Brasil and newspaper Estado de S.Paulo reported that he had symptoms of the disease, such as a fever.

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Brazil's President Bolsonaro says he will be tested for Covid-19

SAO PAULO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said he will be tested for COVID-19 after having an X-ray of his lungs on Monday. He didn't say whether he was showing symptoms of the new coronavirus.Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the risks of the disease, told supporters outside the presidential residence in capital Brasilia that he is feeling well.Brazil's Supreme Court published documents in May showing that Bolsonaro tested negative three times in March after meeting with U.S.

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Bolsonaro shuns face masks at event as country records 1,000 deaths in single day

Jair Bolsonaro attended a U.S. Independence Day celebration in Brazil’s capital Saturday at which participants declined to wear face masks, one day after he vetoed obligatory use of masks in private settings.Bolsonaro shared photos on social media of himself, four Cabinet ministers, other top aides and U.S.

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Judge orders Brazil President Bolsonaro to wear a mask

A federal judge in Brazil ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a face mask in public, after the he repeatedly flouted the coronavirus containment measures in place in Brasilia.

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‘It’s a nightmare.’ How Brazilian scientists became ensnared in chloroquine politics

Lindzi WesselScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Now that several big trials have shown disappointing results, hope has faded that chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine might be miracle drugs against COVID-19. But for one group of researchers in Brazil, the story is far from over.In April, a team led by Marcus Lacerda, director of the Heitor Vieira Dourado Tropical Medicine Foundation in Manaus, Brazil, published a study showing chloroquine can increase mortality in COVID-19 patients.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0