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People walk in the open air market of Belleville, in Paris, Friday, March 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French president foresees some summer tourists in Paris

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President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021. More than a dozen Senate Democrats sent a letter on Friday, April 16, 2021, to Biden highlighting the woeful environmental track record of his Brazilian counterpart and urging him to condition any support for Amazon preservation on significant progress reducing deforestation. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Senate Democrats urge Biden to condition aid to Brazil

By DAVID BILLER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Iowa identifies Brazil coronavirus variant case

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

A 43-year-old patient suspected of having COVID-19 is transferred from an ambulance into the HRAN public hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Shortage of intubation drugs threatens Brazil health sector

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a ceremony to deliver affordable homes built by the government, in a neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Apr. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil court greenlights probe of president’s virus response

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

People walk in the open air market of Belleville, in Paris, Friday, March 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron said that for 15 days starting at noon on Tuesday, people will be allowed to leave the place they live only for necessary activities such as shopping for food, going to work or taking a walk. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness, especially in older adults and people with existing health problems. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France suspends all Brazil flights due to virus variants

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A demonstrator wearing a Brazilian national flag as a cape for a rally in support of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, walks past a billboard presenting the number of COVID-19 vaccines administered to encourage others to get the vaccine, outside the Health Ministry in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Sputnik vaccine helping Russia regain LatAm foothold

By DAVID BILLER and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN - Associated Press

Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) workers Gabrielle Carlos, top, and Joao Vericimo, move a COVID-19 patient to an ambulance as he is transferred to a municipal hospital dedicated to COVID-19 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Brazil’s virus outlook darkens amid vaccine supply snags

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Cemetery workers wearing protective gear carry the coffin of a person who died from complications related to COVID-19 to a gravesite at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil top court orders probe of Bolsonaro’s pandemic steps

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A man looks at the camera as he eats a meal donated by the Leao Xlll Foundation amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro ignores calls for lockdown to slow virus

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazilian activist and artist Rafael Puetter, dressed as the grim reaper, walks in front of the Brandenburg Gate in a one-man protest through Berlin, Germany, early Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The multimedia artist starts his performance at the Brazilian embassy in Berlin at midnight every night to protest against Brazil's COVID-19 policies. Rafael Puetter walks to the Brandenburg Gate and then to the nearby German parliament building, in front of which he counts out a sunflower seed to represent each of the lives that were lost over the past 24 hours in Brazil because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

‘Grim reaper’ Berlin artist protests Brazil’s virus stance

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Wearing a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro arrives for a ceremony to deliver affordable homes built by the government, in a neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Apr. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s daily deaths from COVID pass 4,000 for first time

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Israeli jiu-jitsu black belt finds mentorship in Alabama

By BENJAMIN BULLARD and The Cullman Times - Associated Press

Brazil’s new military commanders, Navy commander Admiral Almir Garnier, left, Army commander General Paulo Sergio, center, and Air Force commander Brigadier Carlos de Almeida Baptista Jr., right, stand during their presentation ceremony at the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. The new leaders of all three branches of Brazil's armed forces were named after the previous ones jointly resigned following President Jair Bolsonaro's replacement of the defense minister, causing widespread apprehension of a military shakeup to serve the president's political interests. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Bolsonaro picks Army chief to ease tensions with military

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face shield and mask decorated with an image of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro takes part in a demonstration to show support for Bolsonaro, after leaders of all three branches of the armed forces jointly resigned following the president's replacement of the defense minister, on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil’s government celebrates military coup anniversary

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at a ceremony announcing economic measures to support philanthropic hospitals and help them treat COVID-19 patients, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil military chiefs quit as Bolsonaro seeks their support

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Demonstrators show their support for Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro in front of the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, March 29, 2021. President Bolsonaro has undertaken a cabinet reshuffle underscored by recent turmoil in his administration, and who has seen his approval ratings slide this year amid a raging new coronavirus pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 300,000 Brazilians. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Bolsonaro forced into Cabinet shuffle, changes top diplomat

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

Actress Kelly Regina da Silva looks out from the window of her room in a building occupied by squatters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Before the coronavirus pandemic hit da Silva had made it out of her working-class favela and landed a leading role in a play showing right across from Ipanema beach. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

In Brazil, moms are bearing the brunt of pandemic’s blow

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

The body of a COVID-19 victim lies in a body bag at the ICU of the Sao Jose municipal hospital in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

As daily deaths near 4,000, worst may lie ahead for Brazil

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria gives a news conference at a vaccination center set up inside a public school in Serrana, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. Brazil's Butantan Institute has started a mass vaccination on Wednesday of the city's entire adult population, about 30,000 people, to test the virus' behavior in response to the vaccine. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Sao Paulo governor seeks tests of 1st Brazilian COVID-19 jab

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press