Stories for February 2021

Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 13:50 UTC
Argentina's health minister in quarantine

Argentina’s health minister Carla Vizzotti said on Friday she had tested positive for COVID-19 and would quarantine for several days. Vizzotti, a week on the job, replaced former minister Gines Gonzalez Garcia who resigned following reports that VIPs in Argentina had jumped the line to receive vaccination shots early.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 13:21 UTC
Households in England with school children will have two rapid Covid-19 tests per week

All households in England with school or college-aged children will be offered two rapid Covid-19 tests per person per week to support the government's priority to get young people back in the classroom, the health ministry said on Sunday.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 11:21 UTC
A million foreign workers are believed to have left Britain: reverse migration, lockdown, Brexit

Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and the coronavirus. London alone has lost 700,000 people over the last year, recent research suggests.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 11:13 UTC
Prince William and Catherine urge those eligible to get vaccinated

Prince William has warned that anti-vaccination messages are rife on social media and urged those eligible to get jabs, following a similar appeal by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:43 UTC
Military guard of honor and RAF fly-past for Captain Sir Tom Moore

A military guard of honor and Royal Air Force fly-past marked the funeral on Saturday of Captain Sir Tom Moore, the World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds for Britain's health service during the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Moore died on February 2, after contracting Covid 19.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:35 UTC
Bolsonaro argues state controlled companies should fulfill a social function

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that the country’s state-controlled companies should fulfill a social function and any different understanding by their chief executives was unacceptable.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:21 UTC
Thousands in Argentina express indignation at the VIP vaccination scandal

Thousands took to the streets in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires and other main cities on Saturday to protest against the government of Alberto Fernandez following the VIP vaccination scandal, which meant a privileged few, mainly politicians, families, and cronies, were able to skip queues and receive the Covid 19 jabs.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:15 UTC
Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, “I will not return to Argentina”

Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, still the Catholic pontiff, without returning to spend his final days in his native Argentina, according to a new book titled The Health Of Popes.
Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:11 UTC
Caged cattle in a rogue vessel stranded in the Mediterranean will be sacrificed

Some 864 head of cattle aboard the ship “Karim Allah” are to be sacrificed, Spanish authorities confirmed on Saturday, following days of controversy over the animals' health.
Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC
Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.