Paulo Cabral covers Brazil for CGTN, with a particular focus on business stories. He joined the channel in 2007 and is based in São Paulo.
Cabral started out as a business reporter in his native Brazil but after a few years went on to an
international career, having worked for BBC for about nine years, initially as a producer and presenter in the BBC World Service, in London, and then as a correspondent in Washington D.C., Cairo and lately in his hometown, São Paulo.
In these positions, Cabral has covered a range of stories from big summits and economic conferences to natural disasters and wars in over 30 countries around the globe.
Cabral has worked for print media, radio, television, news portals and last year completed a Master’s Degree, in the University of São Paulo, with research of ‘hypermedia documentaries’, his new field of interest in media languages and formats.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit millions of families all over the world – and left many children without their primary caregivers. Brazil has created a program to provide assistance to these so-called COVID-19 orphans. CGTN’s Paulo Cabral reports. Read More...
Several regions of Brazil, including its richest state, Sao Paulo, are in the midst of severe drought. Many areas are experiencing some of the driest conditions seen in decades, as the the drought also threatens the country’s energy supply. CGTN’s Paulo Cabral reports from Sao Paulo. Read More...
For the first time in Brazil, there were more deaths than births in the country’s wealthy southeastern region. The average life expectancy for Brazilians is also down. What happened? Read More...
Nearly 98% of the adult population of Serrana, Brazil - about 27,000 people have been vaccinated with the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine. See how China is helping people fight COVID in Brazil. Read More...
After more than a year responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, health care teams in Brazil still find themselves overwhelmed. Case numbers are surging and hospitals are stretched to the limit. In the state of São Paulo, volunteers have been answering a government call to service to help hospitals cope with the […] Read More...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global tragedy, but not everyone has been affected in the same way. Brazilian researchers found in a recent study that poverty is one of the factors that puts some people at higher risk of death from the disease. In Sao Paulo, those living in the poorest neighborhoods are three times […] Read More...
Amid a devastating second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil, hospitals are stretched to the limit and many medications are in short supply including the critical drugs needed to keep intensive care patients intubated. Authorities have been taking measures to try and guarantee new shipments but the risk of […] Read More...
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