SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that lockdown measures used to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus "kill" and have "suffocated" the country's economy.

Amid a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, Brazil has seen a consistent increase in the number of cases of the novel coronavirus in recent weeks. It is the second wave of the pandemic ...

The coronavirus pandemic has a color in Brazil, the epicenter of the outbreak in Latin America: black Brazilians are exposed to greater risk than whites and are dying at a higher rate. More than half ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brazil's bats are harboring a vast and diverse pool of coronaviruses, a new study finds, including a newly identified strain that ...

Researchers have found that galloylquinic acids extracted from the leaves of Copaifera lucens Dwyer, a tree native to Brazil and found mainly in the Atlantic Forest, can act against SARS-CoV-2 in ...

Food distribution to homeless population in Curitiba, in southern state of Paraná. (Credit: Valmir Fernandes [Photo by Coletivo Marmitas da Terra / CC BY 4.0] A study released by Brazil’s Health ...

Just when the world thought it had learned the lessons of the pandemic, scientists have found a new coronavirus strain in South America — one that carries some of the same genetic features that made ...

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 ...

The move to hide the database from the public comes after months of criticism by health experts who say Brazil’s statistics relating to the coronavirus are “woefully deficient and in some cases ...