Health & Science

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentina's society outraged as President “buys his way out of lockdown”

  

  Argentina's society was outraged Tuesday after it was announced that President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez were let off the hook for violating the lockdown he had himself decreed during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Vizzotti says Argentina entering fourth wave of COVID-19

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Monday confirmed the country was going through its fourth wave of COVID-19. The official also pointed out that “we are in a different situation” now.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Monkeypox in UK, apparently from Nigeria: extensive contact tracing in Britain

  

  On 7 May 2022, WHO was informed of a confirmed case of monkeypox in an individual who travelled from the United Kingdom to Nigeria. The case developed a rash on 29 April 2022 and returned to the United Kingdom on 4 May. Monkeypox was suspected and the case was immediately isolated.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 01:02 UTC

  China's Sinovac Biotech building vaccine plant in Chile investing US$ 100 million

  

  Chinese pharmaceutical Sinovac Biotech Ltd which makes one of the vaccines against Covid 19 most in several Latin American countries initiated on Thursday the construction of its first fill and finish plant in Chile, consolidating its presence in the Latin American country that has used its Covid-19 shot the most.

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:29 UTC

  Should a 12-year-old sign contract with parents to have a cell phone?

  

  A Twitter user who goes by the alias of “Judge the Ripper” launched a survey seeking approval for a measure he and his wife allegedly devised to buy their 12-year-old daughter a cell phone.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 19:51 UTC

  Uruguay to start 4th round of covid-19 vaccination next week

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) Friday announced the approval of a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all people between 18 and 49 years of age.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 19:50 UTC

  Paraguay braces for slight increase in coronavirus cases

  

  Paraguayan Health authorities Friday announced they were expecting a slight rebound in the number of COVID-19 cases, based on local data and on that from neighboring countries.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 18:54 UTC

  Mensun Bound will lecture on the discovery of “Endurance” onboard Cunard's Queen Mary 2

  

  Mensun Bound, who as Director of Exploration of the team that on March 5 discovered Sir Ernest Shackleton’s sunken ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea, will deliver talks onboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 in 2022 and 2023.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the action to end his or her life.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Buenos Aires health minister warns of possible new, milder covid-19 wave

  

  Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós Wednesday warned the recent increase in covid cases might be heralding “the beginning of a new wave.”