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China's high demand for beef from Brazil fuelling environmental crisis
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], March 18 (ANI): A ravenous demand from China has helped Brazilian beef sales skyrocket to record levels - which has brought upon a devastating environmental cost.
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Brazil exceeds 245,000 deaths from COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil registered 1,212 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 245,977, the Ministry of Health said Saturday.
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Brazil registers 5th consecutive day of over 1,000 deaths from COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil registered 1,043 more deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide death toll to 238,532, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
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Explosion kills 4, levels 7 houses in Brazil
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 8 (ANI/Xinhua): At least four people were killed and two others injured in an explosion in the Brazilian city of Natal, the capital of the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte, authorities reported on Sunday.
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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 231,000
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 7 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil registered 978 new COVID-19 deaths, bringing the death toll to 231,012, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
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Brazil's mining giant agrees to pay USD 7 billion for dam disaster
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 5 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil's southeast state of Minas Gerais and mining giant Vale on Thursday signed an agreement that commits the company to pay nearly USD 7 billion in recompense for a dam disaster in 2019 that killed hundreds and polluted a vast region.
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Brazil to launch its first domestically designed observation satellite
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], February 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil is finalizing the details to launch the first Earth observation satellite designed, integrated, tested and operated by the country, said the National Institute of Space Research (INPE) on Wednesday.
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Brazil sees 627 COVID-19 deaths in a day
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], January 26 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil on Monday registered 627 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 217,664, the Ministry of Health said.
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Brazilian health regulator declines emergency use of Sputnik V vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], January 17 (ANI): The Brazil National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) declined the request to approve the Russian-developed Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 for emergency use in Brazil.
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Brazil's COVID-19 death toll tops 205,000
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], January 14 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil's COVID-19 death toll reached 205,964 on Wednesday after 1,274 more people died of the novel coronavirus disease in the previous 24 hours.
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Brazil sees 1,110 COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], January 13 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil registered 1,110 deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 204,690, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday.
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Brazil detects the first case of re-infection with coronavirus variant
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], January 9 (ANI/Xinhua): A Brazilian woman has become the first person in the world to be re-infected with a variant of the novel coronavirus known as E484K, state-run news agency Agencia Brasil reported on Friday.
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