Chile

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Chile's metropolitan region overwhelmed by the pandemic; half the country in strict confinement

  

  Chile registered its worst daily figures for coronavirus fatalities on Friday, with 222 deaths and more than 6,700 new infections in the previous 24-hours, authorities said.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 14:33 UTC

  Chilean feminists reject the newly appointed Woman and Gender minister

  

  Chile’s women and gender minister, a great-niece of the late dictator Augusto Pinochet, has resigned after just a month following a furious backlash to her appointment and a string of missteps in office.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 11:17 UTC

  Chile reviews deaths' database, resulting in an increase in Covid 19 fatalities

  

  Chile revised its death toll linked to the novel coronavirus outbreak sharply higher on Sunday, adding fatalities from databases that previously had not been included.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:18 UTC

  With economic activity plunging in Chile, consumer prices fell 0.1% during May

  

  Chilean consumer prices fell 0.1% in May, the government’s statistics agency INE said on Friday, as costs of many goods and services stagnated amid the growing coronavirus outbreak in the country.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  FAO's message on the International Day for the fight against IUU fishing

  

  Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU). These three adjectives ultimately jeopardize the whole of the fisheries sector. IUU fishing can destroy the livelihoods of fishing communities, harm food security and nutrition, damage fair local and international trade, and often give way to unsafe and indecent working conditions, sometimes even crime.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Uptick in domestic violence in Chile becomes politically controversial; women's minister forced to apologize

  

  The Chilean new women's minister has been forced to apologize and pull a controversial advertisement aimed at curbing an increase in domestic violence with the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Chile, once the darling of foreign investors, struggling with coronavirus, inequality and poor public services

  

  Chile's government is struggling to control a coronavirus outbreak that could revive mass social unrest as its hospital system comes under increasing pressure. With a population of 18 million, Chile is reporting new Covid-19 cases at a pace comparable to that of Spain at the peak of the virus' spread in March, on a per capita basis, and resources are close to maxed out in Latin America's wealthiest economy.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  PAHO growing concerns with the accelerating pandemic in Brazil, Peru and Chile

  

  International health authorities expressed concern on Tuesday over signs the spread of the new coronavirus is still accelerating in Brazil, Peru, and Chile. The Pan American Health Organization, which serves as the regional office for the World Health Organization, has been monitoring the pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Piñera admits Chile's health system in close to the very limit

  

  Chile's healthcare system is under strain and “very close to the limit,” President Sebastian Piñera admitted on Sunday, as the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections approaches 70,000 after a rapid increase in recent days.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 10:06 UTC

  Chile passed the 50,000 mark for coronavirus infections

  

  Chile passed the 50,000 mark for coronavirus-related cases on Wednesday, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s running tally counted a total of 53,617 infections with 544 fatalities and 22,504 recoveries.