Brazil football legend, Pele is in hospital for treatment for a colon tumour. The three-time World Cup winner had surgery to remove a colon tumour in September with the hospital saying at the time that he would also need to have chemotherapy. Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein said the 81-year-old was in a stable condition and would…
Brazilian senators have voted to recommend charging President Jair Bolsonaro over his handling of the devastating Covid pandemic. A Senate panel backed a report calling for charges against President Bolsonaro including crimes against humanity, after six hundred thousand deaths from coronavirus. The president has maintained he is guilty of absolutely nothing but the crisis has dented his…
Brazil’s health system is facing increasing pressure and at the risk of collapse due to the growing number of Covid-19 cases. Brazil’s leading health institute warns that more than eighty percent of intensive care unit beds are occupied in the capitals of twenty-five of the country’s twenty-seven states. Brazil has so far recorded more than two hundred…