On his Twitter account, Bolsonaro said he is deeply saddened by the incident.

Brazil still ranks second on the global ranking of cases and deaths linked to the pandemic. Atop the list stands the US.

What is believed to have driven this performance is soybean sales, whose value was up 35.2 percent in the first seven months of the year, against the same period last year.

The incidence of COVID-19 cases for every 100 thousand is now 1,308.8.

The animal has become a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Atlantic Forest.

The vaccine produced by Bio-Manguinhos will be distributed as part of the National Immunization Program, linked to the country’s public health system.

The Southeast has seen 942,948 cases of COVID-19, followed by the Northeast, with 878,1 thousand. In the North, the case tally stands at 414,492. In the Central-West, 259,509. The South has had 238,627.