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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 09 April 2020
From LatinNews Daily
On 8 April, Brazil recorded its first confirmed deaths from coronavirus (Covid-19) in favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro, as well as the first confirmed case in a prison, in the state of Pará.... Read More
* Brazil’s national statistics institute (Ibge) has released its latest data on the services sector, which registered a 1% contraction in volume of activity in February compared with January this year, the biggest monthly fall since July 2018.... Read More
On 8 April, Paraguay’s President Mario Abdo Benítez announced the extension until 19 April of the national quarantine declared to try to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).... Read More
* Paraguay’s foreign ministry has confirmed that the country’s public health body received a transfer of US$520,000 from the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) regional bloc, which will be used to strengthen Paraguay’s medical capacity to respond to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.... Read More
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