This is Brazil by the Numbers, a weekly digest of the most interesting figures tucked inside the latest news about Brazil. A selection of numbers that help explain what is going on in Brazil. This week’s topics: Covid-19 — A second Health Minister resigns, job losses, emergency salary denied to inmate families, a new budget to fight the pandemic in prisons and indigenous villages, the government’s tax revenue, a record on Enem subscriptions, new arrestments of an unfolding ventilators scheme, and more.
Send any suggestions to contribute@brazilian.report
Brazil registered 15,305 new Covid-19 infections between Thursday and Friday along with 824 new deaths. The overall tally now stands at 218,223 infections and 14,817 deaths. And while the number of daily cases and deaths continue on a rise, Brazil has lost yet another Health minister.
Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned on May 15, after less than a month in office. His departure was allegedly due to divergences with President Jair Bolsonaro over social isolation and the use of antimalarial drug...
Data from the 2022 Census released today by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics…
Much has changed since President Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic first came to prominence…
The Federal Prosecution Office said the investigation into a coup attempt led by former far-right…
Following the interest rate easing cycle initiated by the Brazilian Central Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee…
Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday approved a lackluster bill with regulations for climate change adaptation plans,…
The Ibre-FGV GDP monitor, a tool to predict economic activity in Brazil, suggests that the…