A decree is effective today and removes the so-called wharfage fee—linked to the handling of goods at a port—from the calculation of the import tax.
The cities will be tasked with bidding as well as the selectiond of the benefited families, as per the rules of the Aproxima program of the federal government.
According to Fiocruz, more serious cases and deaths were recorded due to COVID-19 among elderly people with comorbidities, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
The new recycling center in one of the largest favelas in Latin America boasts an innovative, international system aimed at stopping plastic before it reaches the ocean.
Through the partnership between the Civil Defense and Google, new types of alerts have been made available, for instance, on floods, forest fires, windstorms, and heavy rain.
“Thanks to the investigations we could identify two people who had contact with the missing persons", the Federal Police stated, adding no one has been arrested thus far.
The most common type of debt is still the credit card, which lies behind the indebtedness of 88.5 percent of these families.