Argentina

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses expected on Thursday

  

  Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine “emergency” authorization, making the country the first in Latin America to do so. The first shipment of the total 25 million doses of the vaccine bought by the Argentine government is due to arrive on Thursday.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Argentina lockdown until 8 January

  

  Argentina established new requirements for entering and leaving the country, starting on Friday through January 8, the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday, in a bid to rein in the coronavirus.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Two weeks of industrial action in Argentina's soy crushers and export ports

  

  Soymeal manufacturers in Argentina presented late on Tuesday a proposal aimed at ending a two-week strike by oil and port workers unions that has thrown a wrench in the flow of agricultural exports from one of the world’s main bread baskets.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina extends emergency approval to the Pfizer anti Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Argentina's medicine and food regulator extended on Tuesday an emergency use for the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine in the country. These vaccines are expected to arrive in Argentina sometime between January and March.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Huge blackout affects Buenos Aires City for several hours

  

  A huge power cut in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires caused a blackout to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Tuesday and brought metro lines to a standstill. The blackout also occurred when the country's medicine and pharmaceutical regulator extended an emergency authorization to the Pfizer BioTechN vaccine.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Weather and ports' strike in Argentina boosting soy and cereals prices

  

  United States soybeans climbed to six-year highs this week as weather and export troubles in Argentina outweighed concerns of a new coronavirus strain hitting Britain. Corn and wheat futures traded near even as soybeans supported the grains complex.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  Workers strike in Argentine ports disrupting wheat millers' operations in Brazil

  

  The prolongation of a workers' strike in the ports of Argentina may disrupt wheat millers' operations in Brazil, especially if the labor action is not called off before the end of the year, industry representatives were quoted in the Brazilian media.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Argentine bishops: With Covid-19 taking lives and 50% poverty, it's no time to address abortion

  

  The president of the Argentine bishops’ conference called on lawmakers to “reflect” as they prepare to debate a bill that would legalize abortion in the South American country.

• Monday, December 21st 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Advancing Falklands' sovereignty claims, one of Argentina's objectives as chair of Mercosur

  

  Argentina is holding the pro tempore rotating chair of Mercosur during the next six months and three are its main objectives during that period according to foreign ministry sources in Buenos Aires. They include Bolivia, the Falklands/Malvinas claim and trade accords and negotiations with other countries.

• Monday, December 21st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina and Chile suspend flights from UK as of midnight Tuesday

  

  Argentina and Chile announced late Sunday that they are suspending flights from the UK after health officials in Britain confirmed that a new variant of the coronavirus was rapidly spreading in the country.