Argentina

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 09:33 UTC

  Covid-19 vaccines: “where's the universal brotherhood” ask Mexican and Argentine presidents

  

  REUTERS – The presidents of Mexico and Argentina on Tuesday pressed the UN and the world's richest countries to improve poorer nations' access to Covid-19 vaccines, arguing efforts are grossly inadequate so far.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's Antarctica Day celebrates 117 years of Orcadas Station, formally Omond House met station

  

  Argentina on 22 February celebrates Antarctica Day, which commemorates the inauguration of the Meteorology and Magnetic Observatory on Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands, in 1904, which would later become Orcadas Station, a historic milestone which marked the beginning of Argentina's uninterrupted presence in Antarctica.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentina publishes the VIP list, who received preferential Covid-19 vaccine treatment

  

  The Argentine government has published a list of 70 influential figures, mostly politicians and close friends and family members, who have received preferential vaccine Covid-19 treatment, at the Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina authorizes emergency use of Sinopharm's vaccine; one million doses expected

  

  ANMAT, Argentina’s drug regulator has authorized the emergency use of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine ahead of an expected delivery of 1 million doses of the Chinese-made jab.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  “Gines was a great minister, but what he did was unforgivable”, Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez blasted his former health minister, and close friend, Gines Gonzalez García over an “unforgivable” coronavirus vaccine scandal, in quotes published on Sunday.

• Sunday, February 21st 2021 - 22:11 UTC

  Argentine new Health minister guarantees fairness in access to Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Argentina has a new Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, who was sworn in on Saturday after the country was rattled by a scandal over VIP coronavirus vaccine access. The incoming official pledged to strengthen oversight and transparency of the inoculation program.

• Saturday, February 20th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentine health minister resigns over VIP vaccination scandal eroding public trust in the inoculation program

  

  Argentina's current Deputy Health minister Carla Vizzotti, will be appointed Minister on Saturday following the Friday resignation of Ginés González García, who had organized at the ministry a VIP Covid-19 vaccination hall for government officials, friends and family.

• Thursday, February 18th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Bondholders criticize Argentina erratic economic policies, subordinated to politics

  

  Creditors have criticized the current Argentine government of the country for what it describes as “erratic” economic policies claiming they are impeding growth and weighing on bond prices five months after the government restructured some US$ 65 billion in foreign bonds.

• Thursday, February 18th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Fearful of inflation Argentina claims consumer corporations are holding back production volumes

  

  With inflation far from target and increasing consumer prices, Argentina is investigating firms including Danone, Procter & Gamble, Fargo, miller Cañuelas, abattoir Paledini and Unilever, along with food producers like Bunge, accusing them of deliberately holding back production.

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Argentina's death toll, 50,432; batch of AstraZeneca vaccine from India expected Wednesday

  

  Argentina on Tuesday reported 4,003 new COVID-19 cases and 106 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising the total caseload to 2,033,060 and the death toll to 50,432, the health authorities said. Since the first case was detected on March 3, 2020, some 1,838,291 people infected with the virus have recovered, the health ministry added.