Argentina

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Mar del Plata doctors successfully tackle COVID-19 from a different angle

  

  A group of physicians from the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata have been trying a new therapy against COVID-19 of their own concoction which has so far yielded “very encouraging results,” according to press reports.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch nationwide health pass

  

  Health ministers of all Argentine jurisdictions gathered under the Federal Council known as COFESA, Monday announced the guidelines for a nationwide Health Pass had been agreed upon and that its final details were to be specified shortly.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Uruguayan minister wants borders open to welcome visitors from everywhere

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera said over the weekend that his country's “land, air and sea borders must be open” for visitors.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Expedition cruise Ultramarine anchored in Ushuaia bay finally cleared to sail

  

  The expedition cruise Ultramarine from Quark Expeditions, anchored in Ushuaia Bay, extreme south of Argentina, finally was liberated after Covid-19 testing among the crew proved negative. The crew was never allowed ashore and had to wait until the Covid-19 outbreak was considered under control.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentina to head UN Human Rights Council throughout 2022

  

  Argentina has been voted unanimously to preside over the United Nations Human Rights Council, in what has been perceived as a diplomatic achievement of President Alberto Fernández's administration.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 21:18 UTC

  Argentina banks on the bright side of Brexit

  

  According to the Buenos Aires daily El Cronista, Argentina has largely benefitted from the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, as more products from the South American country were in demand.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 20:43 UTC

  Province of Buenos Aires announces Health Pass for Summer season

  

  The Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, which concentrates most of the country's beach resorts, has announced a Health Pass will be required for people over the age of 13 starting Dec. 21.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Lula to appear at Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires this week

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva will attend celebrations in Buenos Aires on Dec. 10 marking a new anniversary of the return to democratic rule, which was announced in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Unexpected call of Viking Jupiter to Uruguay; she's scheduled to visit the Falkland Islands

  

  The Atlantic coast resort Punta del Este received on Saturday the first cruise vessel since the start of the pandemic. The expedition cruise Viking Jupiter was scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but since it had stopped at Cape Verde islands in Africa, Argentina is demanding a fourteen day quarantine before letting anybody in the country.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine Federal Court upholds Stanley landing ship must not be scrapped

  

  A Bahía Blanca Federal Court of Appeals has upheld a judicial ruling whereby the decommissioned destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad which took part in the Apr. 2, 1982 landing at Port Stanley, can not be sold as scrap metal, despite its current state of deterioration.