Brazil

Cemetery workers wearing protective gear lower the coffin of a person who died from complications related to Covid-19 into a gravesite in Brazil (AP/Andre Penner)

Coronavirus cases and deaths reach record highs in countries around the world

April 8, 2021

Cemetery workers wearing protective gear carry the coffin of a person who died from complications related to Covid-19 (Andre Penner/AP)

Bolsonaro rejects lockdown despite Brazils’ record Covid-19 death toll

April 7, 2021

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has replaced his defence minister in a move which has caused apprehension among political analysts in the former military-controlled country (Eraldo Peres/AP)

Brazil military chiefs quit as Bolsonaro replaces defence minister

March 31, 2021

A demonstrator places a Brazil national flag on a mattress symbolising Covid-19 victims during a protest against the government’s handling of the pandemic in Rio de Janeiro (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo/AP)

Brazil becomes second country with 300,000 Covid deaths

March 25, 2021

Passengers on a flight to Aberdeen are being urged to contact coronavirus tracers, after three people who were later found to have a new strain of the virus were on board a flight from Heathrow. (Aaron Chown/PA)

Travellers on Aberdeen flight urged to call coronavirus contact tracers

March 2, 2021

A man stands in line for a bus on the first day of a two-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in Brasilia (Eraldo Peres/AP)

Lockdowns and curfews urged in Brazil amid concerns over spread of virus

March 2, 2021

The testing centre in Stoke Gifford (Ben Birchall/PA)

Surge testing begins in South Gloucestershire after Manaus Covid variant found

March 1, 2021

Concerns about border rules have intensified following the detection of the UK’s first cases of the Manaus variant of coronavirus (Yui Mok/PA)

Key questions answered on UK’s border rules for travellers from Brazil

March 1, 2021

Surge testing previously took place at the Science Park in Emersons Green, Bristol (Ben Birchall/PA)

Surge testing to start in South Gloucestershire after Manaus Covid variant found

February 28, 2021

Three people have tested positive for the Brazil variant (Simon Dawson/PA)

Three people with Brazil variant of Covid-19 detected in Scotland

February 28, 2021

Nelio Salles De Siqueira said hotel quarantine is damaging the health of his son, Caique Pires Salles (Nelio Salles De Siqueira/PA)

Father of autistic teenager warns hotel quarantine is damaging son’s health

February 25, 2021