Amid the push to get the COVID-19 vaccine to many as possible to stem the pandemic, a new variant of the coronavirus that exploded in Brazil and has since been reported in the U.S. is causing concern ...

Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that may pose a danger to human health in the years to come. Scientists are ...

REGISTRO, Brazil (Reuters) – Escaped slaves in Brazil seeking to live freely often set up communities called quilombos where their former owners could not find them. But the coronavirus has found its ...

Brazil recorded 407 deaths from the coronavirus in 24 hours, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic, the Health Ministry said Thursday. A worker builds vertical graves during the COVID ...

The new coronavirus was circulating in Brazil in early February, weeks earlier than initially detected, and just before millions of people were partying in the streets for carnival, according to a new ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - As Oswaldo dos Santos watched several men in protective suits dig a hasty grave for his 36-year-old son, his grief was mixed with fear: What if he had the coronavirus? What if ...

Brazil's biggest metropolis has an unorthodox plan to free up space at its graveyards during the coronavris pandemic: digging up the bones of people buried in the past and storing their bagged remains ...

Orlando Martínez had barely heard of COVID-19 when 26 members of his Warao ethnic group came down with tell-tale symptoms of the illness. “At first they got a fever and couldn’t eat. Then, they got ...

Cases of the coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil are increasing in the U.S., according to CDC data updated April 8. 1. The CDC confirmed 434 cases of the variant, known as P.1, in 28 states ...