Health & Science

• Monday, October 4th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Some hope for this coming cruise season as Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina make public protocols

  

  Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina have announced the vaccine certificates and protocols which will be demanded from cruise vessel passengers and crewmembers this coming summer season if they are to call in the three countries as part of their South American tours.

• Sunday, October 3rd 2021 - 16:35 UTC

  New candidate for longest ever living person dies in Eritrea aged 127

  

  Eritrean citizen Natabay Tinsiew has died last week at the age of 127, making him eligible for a berth within the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest-living person, his family hoped.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Sinopharm's COVID-19 drug good for children aged 3 to 11, Argentine health authorities say

  

  Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Friday announced the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine had been approved for use on children aged 3 to 11.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Punta Arenas will have its International Antarctic Center following financing of the project

  

  Punta Arenas, as the capital of the Chilean Magallanes Region and Chilean Antarctica, will finally have its International Antarctic Center making the city the logistic hub and gate of access to Western Antarctica, following on the regional council's decision to support and finance the 88 million dollars project as part of the development program for Extreme Zones.

• Saturday, October 2nd 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Gibraltar Chief Minister tests positive for COVID-19 on return from UK

  

  Gibraltar Chief Minister, Fabian Picardo QC MP, tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday upon his return from the United Kingdom. Mrs Picardo, who travelled with the Chief Minister, has tested negative.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 19:48 UTC

  Argentina to strike all restrictions on flights as of next month

  

  Argentina's Interior Minister Wado De Pedro, Friday announced that effective November 1 airlines interested in operating in the country will be able to do so with no coronavirus restrictions in place.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 17:50 UTC

  Chile lifts curfew; quarantine only for travelers and other specific situations

  

  Chilean authorities have lifted the curfew imposed over a year and a half ago as a part of the sanitary measures against the COVID-19 pandemic effective Oct. 1, it was announced.

• Friday, October 1st 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  FIG and BAS work together on forthcoming Antarctic summer research season

  

  Despite the global pandemic, the strong strategic relationship between the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has gone from strength to strength. Following the success of the previous austral summer research season, the Falkland Islands is once again positioned to be the gateway for exciting and important Antarctic science over the next six to nine months.

• Thursday, September 30th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Restrictions on non-traveling people to Buenos Aires international airport eased down

  

  Argentine authorities Wednesday have allowed for the access of people to Buenos Aires' main air terminal to accompany departing passengers, but those welcoming arriving travelers still need to wait outside, it was announced.

• Wednesday, September 29th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  São Paulo medical care provider said to be behind “disguised euthanasia” in COVID-19 cases

  

  Brazilian Senator Otto Alencar spoke of cases of “disguised euthanasia” in the medical insurance company Prevent Senior, which is also suspected of having prescribed hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients.