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COVID-19 vaccination drive for teenagers kicks off in Sao Paulo

01:51 Brazil’s biggest state, São Paulo, began this week to vaccinate teenagers. The plan is to to give access to the vaccine to all teens, age 12 and older, by September 6th. CGTN's Pa

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Chinese company Huawei opens 5G experimentation center in Brazil

01:45 Brazil is planning to auction 5G frequencies later this month. Chinese company Huawei is among the tech firms watching closely as the technology becomes available.Huawei recently

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Chinese firm BYD expands solar panel production in Brazil

02:12 The world's number one all-electric vehicle maker - Chinese company BYD - came to Brazil in 2015 to invest in the production not only of their trucks, buses and cars but also to t

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Green energy grows across rural countryside in Brazil

02:35 The use of solar energy is on the rise in Brazil and growth has increased in rural areas across the country. Learn more.Check outThe China Report, our new weekly newsletter.Subscr

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Brazil works to find fossils and crackdown on smuggling

03:22 Brazil’s Cariri region is among the world​'s top spots for fossil research where well-preserved fossils are found in many places. But officials are also dealing with illegal traff

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Sao Paulo water shortage

03:26 Several regions of Brazil, including its richest state, Sao Paulo, are in the midst ofsevere drought. Many areas are experiencing some of the driest conditions seen in decades, as

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This is what it's like to get the COVID jab in Brazil

03:07 As vaccines roll out in Brazil it was time for our correspondent Paulo Cabral to get his shot. See what it was like.Vaccinations are still slow in coming in Brazil but in recent w

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Right-wing governments see setbacks throughout Latin America

04:08 Signs of political tides - shifting againinLatinAmerica. It's the region that saw aleftistwavebeginninginthe early 2000’s - dubbed the PinkTide. Then, inthe mid 2010s, therightgai

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Impact of COVID-19 on Brazil’s demographics

02:25 The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to Brazil’s population dynamics.For the first time, there were more deaths than births in the country’s richest southeastern

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Brazilian town proud of having mass immunization with China's vaccine

02:48 A unique experiment​is bringing hope to a small town in Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.​While less than eight percent of the country as a whole

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Brazil struggles with reopening churches as COVID-19 spike

02:37 Churchesand other placesofworship,​where people gather in close contact,can be​high-riskenvironments forspreadingCOVID-19.​Butdecisions over allowing them to operate areoften poli

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Tracking mosquito larvae to prevent Dengue, Chikungunya spikes

01:41 CGTN's Paulo Cabral is in Sao Vincente, Brazil, to see how health workers are looking for potential breeding grounds for #mosquitos that spread Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika.As Br

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How volunteer frontline workers support Brazil's COVID fight

02:35 After more than ayear responding tothe COVID-19 pandemic, health care teams inBrazil still find themselvesoverwhelmed. ​Case numbers are surging and hospitals are stretched to th

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Volunteers fight against COVID-19 in Brazil

02:28 The pandemic has created tremendous challenges for Brazil’s health care system. So the state of Sao Paulo created a ‘VolunteersRegistry’​early on -to find people willing to helpf

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Catholic priest works to fight homelessness in Sao Paulo

03:31 Back in 2019 São Paulo authorities estimated the city’s homeless population in about 25,000 people. Figures have not been updated since but there are signs that the economic cris

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A study shows COVID-19 impact based on poverty in Brazil

02:42 The COVID-19 pandemic is a global tragedy,but not everyone has been affected in the same way.Brazilian researchers found in a recentstudythat poverty is oneofthe factors that put

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Shortage of critical medications for ICU patients in Brazil

02:32 ​Amid a devastating second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil, hospitals are stretched to the limit and many medications are in short supply including thecritical drugs neededto keep ​in