Health workers on strike against the privatization of federal hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. The banner reads “Nisia the enemy of the SUS [Public Health System]” [Photo: Mayara Alves/SINSPREV/RJ] ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian rapper MV Bill added his voice to a chorus of criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro for downplaying the gravity of the new coronavirus epidemic in a video clip ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Brazil currently accounts for one-quarter of the entire world’s daily COVID-19 deaths, far more than any other single nation, and health experts are warning that the nation is on ...

(Reuters) - As infections of the novel coronavirus rise steadily in Brazil and threaten to cause chaos in its densely populated favelas, some of the country's leading athletes are stepping up to help ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government has confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in Latin America. The health minister said Wednesday that a 61-year-old man who traveled to Italy's ...

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil topped 300,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, becoming the second country to do so amid a spike in infections that has seen the South American country report record ...

Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, passed the mark of 1,000 deaths on Friday, the health ministry said. The ministry's latest figures gave a toll of 19,638 ...

Brazilian researchers have topped a bioinformatics competition looking to find molecules that could one day function as treatments for Covid-19. The need for new treatments has not waned: the virus ...

Brazil's top football clubs are handing over their stadiums to allow health authorities to turn them into field hospitals and clinics to fight the coronavirus pandemic. With football in the country ...

The giant statue of Jesus Christ, which stands nearly 100 feet tall and overlooks the city of Rio de Janeiro, also showed images of the words... Brazil's famed Christ the Redeemer statue was lit up ...