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 ...

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 ...

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'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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's government has confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in Latin America. The health minister said Wednesday that a 61-year-old man who traveled to Italy's ...

To Brazil now, where the government has been slow to acknowledge the coronavirus threat. NPR's Philip Reeves is confined to his bureau in Rio de Janeiro, but he can report that the sounds and the mood ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s government ...