The WHO’s regional body for Latin America and the Caribbean announced it will launch a platform (PAHO) to boost regional efforts to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines. It is currently accepting proposals for how to bring mRNA technology to the region.
Brazil: Some six thousand Indigenous Brazilians from 173 ethnic groups are camping in Brazil’s capital (AP) to protest ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on Indigenous land rights. The ruling could create precedent for disregarding some Indigenous people’s legal rights to ancestral lands.
