MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for April 15th 2021
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Argentina: curfew extended, on-site schooling banned in Buenos Aires amid coronavirus second wave
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday announced further restrictions for the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) in a manoeuvre to curb the so-called second wave of the covid-19 disease.
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 09:26 UTC
Argentine laboratory seeks to manufacture Sputnik V vaccine locally
The Argentine firm Laboratorios Richmond Wednesday launched the Financial Trust “Project V.I.D.A. (Project and Immunization for Argentine Development),” to seek financing for the development of the plant where the Russian-designed Sputnik V vaccine is to be manufactured locally.
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 09:06 UTC
Argentina to receive over 800,000 doses of AstraZeneca; Denmark stop giving that vaccine
The Argentine government has announced a shipment of 864,000 doses of the AstraZeneca anti-covid-19 vaccine is due at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport onboard a KLM flight this coming Sunday morning.
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 08:47 UTC
Swindler Bernie Madoff dies in US prison aged 82
Convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock market who lured many millionaires to invest in his amazing deals which turned out to be losses, has died in a US federal prison at the age of 82, it was announced.
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 08:41 UTC
US to withdraw from Afghanistan by September, says Joe Biden
US President Joseph Biden announced late Tuesday his country would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11, thus putting an end to one of the longest armed conflicts in which the country has been involved.
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Thursday, April 15th 2021 - 06:53 UTC
Uruguayan Presidential Secretary recovering “well” following emergency surgery
Uruguayan Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado was recovering “well” and hoped to be discharged from the hospital Thursday, following an emergency appendix surgery on Wednesday, it was reported.
