Health & Science

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Argentina lifts capacity ban ahead of a football match against Brazil

  

  Argentine authorities have lifted all capacity restrictions on outdoor events as of Nov. 16, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti announced Friday. It is also the day Argentina's national football team is to clash with Brazil in a World Cup qualifier.

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 08:29 UTC

  Pfizer vaccine gets emergency authorization for use on children aged 5 to 11 in the US

  

  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States Friday issued an emergency clearance for the use of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 on children aged 5 to 11, it was announced. The decision came three days after a recommendation from a scientific committee.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 20:24 UTC

  EU should lift entry restrictions to travelers from Argentina, Colombia and Peru

  

  The European Union Council has advised Member States Friday to add Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and also Namibia to the list of countries for which travel restrictions to/from the European Union should be lifted at the earliest time possible.

• Friday, October 29th 2021 - 11:24 UTC

  Uruguay, Pfizer agree on supply of COVID-19 vaccines for 2022

  

  The Government of Uruguay finally reached an agreement with Pfizer for the supply of 3.7 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines during 2022, it was announced Thursday in Montevideo.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 21:59 UTC

  Seven LatAm countries to be removed from UK's travel red list

  

  The United Kingdom's Departments for Transport and of Health and Social Care Thursday issued a joint press release announcing that the seven countries still on the travel red list, all of them from Latin America, would be removed from it shortly.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Over 53% of Brazilians fully vaccinated, report says

  

  Brazil's much-criticized anti-COVID-19 vaccination drive has already reached 53% of the population with full treatment, while 72% of patients have at least taken the initial dose, according to a health report released Wednesday.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:27 UTC

  Closer to solving the mystery of the extinct Falklands' canid warrah

  

  The team headed by Kit Hamley also extended its research into the warrah (Dusicyon australis), an extinct species of fox. The warrah was the only native and terrestrial mammal to reside on the Falkland Islands at the time of European arrival. Subsequent hunting wiped the species out in 1856, making it the first extinct canid in the historic record, Hamley says.

• Thursday, October 28th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity

  

  The following piece was published by Phys/Org – Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 20:17 UTC

  PAHO says more COVID-19 vaccines needed

  

  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa Wednesday urged G20 leaders meeting this coming weekend at Rome's Summit to donate more COVID-19 vaccines because the region's improvements in the fight against the disease were shadowed by steps backward in the most impoverished territories and Caribbean Islands.

• Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Desperate Nicaraguans go to Honduras to get COVID-19 shots

  

  Citizens of Nicaragua, which according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ranks among the six countries in the region with the lowest vaccination rates, have been crossing over the border to neighbouring Honduras even on horseback and in rafts to receive a COVID-19 immunizer, it was reported.