Tag: Nísia Trindade

• Saturday, July 6th 2024 - 07:53 UTC

  Brazil to build lab marking pandemic readiness

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended this week the laying of the foundation stone for the Orion Project, a laboratory complex specialized in disease-causing pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites to be built in Campinas, in the State of São Paulo. According to Agencia Brasil, the facility is expected to be the most advanced in Latin America and one of the most important in the world.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2024 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazil to build memorial site for Covid-19 victims

  

  Brazilian authorities will build a memorial in Rio de Janeiro to honor the some 710,000 people who died of COVID-19 during the international crisis, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Brazil's Health Minister asks for citizenry's help fighting dengue

  

  Brazil's Health Minister Nísia Trindade Tuesday called on the population of South America's largest country to avoid the proliferation of breeding sites for the mosquito that transmits dengue fever as the number of cases of the malady is surging nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, May 2nd 2023 - 09:50 UTC

  Illegal miners gunned down in Yanomami Territory

  

  Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change confirmed the death of four miners inside the Yanomami Indigenous Land late on Sunday, April 30, Agencia Brasil reported. They had reacted to a raid by the Federal Highway Police (PRF) and the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama). According to the ministry, during the action, large-caliber weapons were seized.