A new study describes the first identification of the SARS-CoV-2 alpha variant in domestic animals; two cats and one dog tested positive for a PCR test, while another two cats and one dog exhibited antibodies two to six weeks after developing signs of heart disease in the UK. As a result, the study reveals that […]
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Discover the Covid-19 drugs approved for emergency use worldwide
Although vaccination against Covid-19 is advancing in several countries around the world, including Brazil, there is still a race of pharmaceutical laboratories to create a drug that prevents the serious evolution of the disease. This is because the vaccine does not prevent the transmission of Covid-19, although it can contain, in most cases, hospitalization and […]
With Covid-19 down, Santa Claus returns to malls across Brazil
Away from shopping malls in 2020 due to restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the good old man returned to his post this week, bringing back the tradition of children’s requests and registration through photos. For Christmas this year, the Santa Claus School in Brazil, which has been in existence for 28 years and has […]
Vote on the rapporteur’s amendments in the STF and later on November 9th
Supreme votes on budget rapporteur amendments, impeachment process in Chile and fuel adjustment are among the highlights of 5 Fatos Tarde this Tuesday, November 9, 2021. PEC of Precatório Justice Rosa Weber, from the Federal Supreme Court (STF), denied the requests to suspend the processing of the PEC do Precatórios. One of the requests denied […]
Blacks are 50% more likely to die from Covid-19 in Brazil, says OECD
The Covid-19 pandemic caused 2.5 million deaths or 16% more than expected for 2020 and the first half of 2021 in 43 countries — 38 of them members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and 5 partners , among them Brazil. The main victims of the disease were the elderly and the […]
Blacks are 1.5 times more likely to die from Covid-19 in Brazil, says OECD
The Covid-19 pandemic caused 2.5 million deaths or 16% more than expected for 2020 and the first half of 2021 in 43 countries — 38 of them members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and 5 partners , among them Brazil. The main victims of the disease were the elderly and the […]
Vaccination explains significant drop in Covid-19 numbers, says infectious disease
The fact that nine states – Acre, Amapá, Goiás, Minas Gerais, PiauÃ, Rondônia, Roraima, São Paulo and Sergipe – have not registered deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours can be explained by the advance of vaccination in the country. This is the assessment of infectologist Marcelo Otsuka, in an interview with CNN Rádio. […]
The extent of collective dismissal damage to Enem is unknown, says ES secretary
Although the Ministry of Education (MEC) guarantees that the schedule of the National Secondary Education Examination (Enem) will follow normally, even after collective dismissal at Inep, the application of the test may be at risk. The assessment is by Vitor de Angelo, president of the National Council of Secretaries of Education (Consed) and state secretary […]
Deforestation: Legal Amazon has an average loss of 1.5 million trees per day
More than a thousand trees are deforested per minute in the Legal Amazon in 2021, according to the Plena Mata panel, a forest monitor that uses data from MapBiomas, based on the average daily deforestation detected by DETER/INPE. The panel, which counts in real time the trees felled by human action, points out that more […]
The population of Grande ABC, in SP, supports the use of masks until 2022, says consortium
According to the executive secretary of the Grande ABC Intermunicipal Consortium, Acácio Miranda, the decision of cities in the state of São Paulo to maintain the use of masks until at least December this year is popular with the population. “A considerable portion of the population supports the measure, we noticed on the social network, […]
