Stories for 2020

Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:57 UTC
Airbridge flights provide Falklands with a steady flow of Covid-19 test samples

Some 86 tests for COVID-19 from Falkland Islands residents have returned negative results, it was confirmed on Wednesday. A total of 124 tests have been sent for analysis to the UK so far, with some 38 results still awaited. Thus until Wednesday, April first, the Falklands have no confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:56 UTC
Cruise vessels Zaandam and Rotterdam with hundreds of sick on board dock at Fort Lauderdale

Florida officials have officially permitted the MS Zaandam and the MS Rotterdam, Holland America cruise ships with hundreds of sick on board, to dock at Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades and begin disembarking guests.
Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:55 UTC
Falklands Office in London remains open for business and stranded Islanders

On the advice of the UK Prime Minister, the Falkland Islands Government Office in London is closed and all staff is working from home. Despite this FIGO is working as normal and remains available to help all Islanders in the UK, Falkland Islands organizations, FIG, and anyone traveling to and from the Islands.
Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:45 UTC
Falklands ensures vital supplies for West Falkland and other islands

Although Falklands have no anticipated difficulties with sea freight logistics to supply the Islands, nevertheless it has the challenge of maintaining West Falkland and the other outer islands with the necessary provisions. Let us not forget that the Falklands are an archipelago that includes two main landmasses and some 700 minor islands.
Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:37 UTC
Beijing disappears whistle blower doctor after disseminating information of coronavirus in Wuhan

Wuhan doctor Ai Fen, who expressed early concerns about the coronavirus to the media, has disappeared and is believed detained by Chinese authorities. Fen, the head of the emergency at Wuhan Central Hospital, was given a warning after she disseminated information about the coronavirus to several other doctors.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 09:43 UTC
Trump orders sanitary evacuation of Zaandam and Rotterdam passengers

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that US authorities will evacuate passengers from a stranded cruise ship due to dock in Florida after being barred from several South American countries because of a coronavirus outbreak aboard.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Wild animals are slipping to explore empty streets of lock-downed cities

With humans retreating into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of the biggest cities. Wild boar have descended from the hills around Barcelona in Spain while sika deer are nosing their way around the deserted metro stations of Nara in Japan.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC
One million Brits claimed “universal credit” welfare payments in two weeks

Almost one million people have claimed “universal credit” welfare payments in the UK in the past two weeks, exposing the massive economic hit from Boris Johnson's coronavirus lockdown.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:39 UTC
With lockdown, Spain's helpline for victims of gender violence shoots up

Calls to Spain's governmental helpline for victims of gender violence shot up in the first two weeks of a state of emergency lockdown imposed to combat the spread of coronavirus, the government said on Wednesday.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:23 UTC
Indigenous woman in the Brazilian Amazon tests positive for coronavirus

An indigenous woman in a village deep in the Amazon rainforest has contracted the novel coronavirus, the first case reported among Brazil's more than 300 tribes, the Health Ministry's indigenous health service Sesai said on Wednesday