Brazil's Salvador and Cuiaba cities followed the suit of Rio de Janeiro and paused their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns due to the shortage of available vaccine doses, Brazilian news outlet G1 reported on Wednesday

Even though Brasilian and South African coronavirus strains are present in France, their spread is significantly slower than the circulation of the UK-linked coronavirus variant, Bruno Lina, French virologist and a member of the national Scientific Council, told the France Inter broadcaster on Wednesday

Uruguay has detected its first cases of the mutated Brazilian variant of the novel coronavirus, Health Minister Daniel Salinas said on Thursday