Brazilians often (quite reasonably) complain that foreigners think the capital is Rio, or even Buenos Aires. But get this, the Brazilian health ministry reportedly confused Amapá with Amazonas state and sent desperately needed Covid vaccines to wrong place
LOOK: Municipal health workers travel along the Amazon river to start vaccinating riverside communities in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil, a region hard hit by Covid-19 and are now facing a lethal surge friven by new Brazilian variant. | 📷 Bruno Kelly/Reuters
A Brazilian court has approved an investigation into Heath Minister Eduardo Pazuello's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, after oxygen shortages collapsed the health system of Manaus, capital city of Amazonas state, last week
Chinese Ambassador to Brazil @WanmingYang said Friday that China will offer aid to the Brazilian state of Amazonas to help overcome the serious health crisis caused by the lack of oxygen in hospitals to treat patients with #COVID19 . A more contagious strain was discovered there.
China offers aid to Brazilian state of Amazonas to help overcome health crisis caused by lack of oxygen in hospitals to treat patients with #COVID19
The news coming out of the Brazilian Amazon just gets worse & worse. 159 deaths registered in Amazonas state in last 24 hours.
The Brazilian jungle state of Amazonas received more emergency supplies of oxygen and respirators, as the military and neighboring Venezuela scrambled to alleviate an unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by the Covid-19 outbreak #etribune #Covid19 #news
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The Brazilian state of Amazonas is running out of oxygen as Covid-19 surges, with media reporting that people on respirators were dying of suffocation in hospitals.
Brazil's COVID-stricken Amazonas state was in desperate need of oxygen as global fears grew of a new Brazilian variant of the virus
In the #AmazonRainforest , fire season has arrived. The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this images of several fires burning in the Brazilian states of Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso on August 11, 2019.
PM Netanyahu and his wife Sara met with Brazilian Christian friends of Israel. During the event the post office of the Brazilian state of Amazonas launched a stamp that had been prepared by Christian friends of Israel from Manaus in honor of 70 years of Israel's independence.
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