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Stories for August 13th 2020

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 06:42 UTC

  Sao Paulo governor tested positive for the coronavirus

  

  The governor of Sao Paulo, the state with the highest COVID-19 death toll in hard-hit Brazil, said on Wednesday he had tested positive for the new coronavirus and would continue working from quarantine.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 06:24 UTC

  Ambassador Kent praises UK/Argentine cooperation in combating Covid-19

  

  This is a clear example of the kind of cooperation needed to battle the Covid-19 pandemic globally, UK Ambassador Mark Kent said following the Wednesday announcement of the agreement for the production in Argentina of the vaccine currently being developed by the AstraZeneca lab and the University of Oxford.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 06:24 UTC

  Britain lowers pandemic death toll with a new counting method

  

  Britain's official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic was lowered by over 5,000 on Wednesday as the government adopted a new way of counting fatalities after concerns were raised that the old method overstated them.