Health & Science

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 21:49 UTC

  Brazil: Pele hospitalized for further cancer treatment

  

  Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, has been admitted Wednesday into the Albert Einstein Clinic in São Paulo for further treatment of a colon tumor. He was said to be “stable.”

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil announces health pass requirement, minister refuses to call it so

  

  The Brazilian Government of President Jair Bolsonaro, known for his personal stance in favor of freedom of choice regarding COVID-19 vaccination, has announced arriving travelers who have not been immunized will be put through mandatory quarantine.

• Thursday, December 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Johnson aide resigns over Xmas party scandal, PM enacts COVID Plan B

  

  A close aide of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has turned in her resignation after being involved in the Christmas Party scandal, according to which last year's celebrations at 10 Downing Street were not by restrictive sanitary measures imposed on the rest of the population.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Presidents of Argentina, Russia could meet next year

  

  Russia's Ambassador to Buenos Aires Tuesday said Presidents Alberto Fernández and Vladimir Putin could meet next year to build on the “relationship of mutual trust” developed between the two leaders.

• 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 - 20:08 UTC

  German families seek shelter in Paraguay from vaccines and lockdowns

  

  German citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or put up to harsh mobility restrictions have fled their country and sought shelter in a community within Paraguay, it was reported.

• 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 - 09:30 UTC

  WTO urges members to end fisheries subsidies discussions by next February/March

  

  World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged delegation heads to redouble their efforts to bridge differences on the ongoing discussions on curbing harmful fisheries subsidies by the end of February 2022. Discussions were suspended because of the Covid-19 Omicron variant