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Stories for May 3rd 2023

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:43 UTC

    No progress in Latin America against child marriage

    “Early marriage is rare among the wealthiest segments,” the UNICEF report showed

    According to the latest UNICEF study on child marriage, Latin America is second only to sub-Saharan Africa as the region of the world where the fight against such a practice has progressed the least in the last 25 years, it was reported.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguay starts vaccinating poultry against avian flu

    The situation “is still in the area of wildlife and backyard poultry, it has not entered into any production system,” Mattos said

    Uruguayan authorities began vaccinating poultry against avian flu with immunizers from the United States, it was reported Tuesday in Montevideo. An additional batch of chemicals is due from Mexico shortly.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:28 UTC

    First case of Arcturus reported in Brazil

    The patient was a 75-year-old man with comorbiditiea

    São Paulo's Municipal Health Secretariat reported this week the first case of variant XBB.1.16 of Covid-19, also known as Arcturus in a 75-year-old man, bedridden and with comorbidities, who presented the symptoms of influenza syndrome and persistent fever on April 7.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Quito Metro does not run smoothly on first day of commercial service

    Quito Mayor Santiago Guarderas acknowledged that there were some inconveniences

    Ecuadoreans stood in long lines Tuesday to buy tickets for the first day of commercial services by Quito's new underground railway system, it was reported. The Quito Metro had been performing free-of-charge test rides for the past four months.

  • Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 - 10:17 UTC

    World Press Freedom Day: IAPA anything but optimistic

    “It is impossible to sustain democracy without the proper freedom and protection that journalists and the media need...,” Greenspon said

    Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) President Michael Greenspon was anything but optimistic in his World Press Freedom Day message after reports showed that, in the last semester, 10 journalists were murdered: 5 in Haiti and the others in Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, and Paraguay.

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