Health & Science

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 08:43 UTC

  Two Covid-19 positive cases on Celebrity Millennium in Caribbean cruise despite abiding CDC guidelines

  

  Uncomfortable start for Caribbean cruises. Two guests on one of the first cruise ships to sail from the United States since the COVID-19 pandemic hit tested positive on Thursday, Royal Caribbean said, adding that all passengers and crew had been vaccinated.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 21:15 UTC

  Cruise industry interested in returning to Uruguay for the 2021/22 season

  

  Uruguay has received over 200 requests for cruise vessels to call in Montevideo and Punta del Este for the coming 2021/22 season, (October/March), according to reports in the local media. Of the 200, 140 requests are for Montevideo and 60 for the international seaside resort of Punta del Este.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 17:28 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa gives green light to start ButanVac testing pending some paperwork

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency of Brazil (Anvisa) Wednesday authorized the Butantan Institute to carry out human tests of the locally-produced ButanVac immunizer.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 17:02 UTC

  Copa America loses leading sponsoring brewery

  

  The Ambev brewery has announced Wednesday that they had decided to withdraw from the much controversial Copa America football tournament of South American national teams due to start in Brazil this coming weekend.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  European Parliament: OK to Green Passport for covid-free travelers

  

  The European Parliament (EP) Wednesday approved using a digital certificate attesting to a person's situation regarding covid-19, which will allow travellers to prove if they have been vaccinated, overcome the disease, or obtain a negative result to a PCR test.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  Argentina: Medical equipment donated by Lionel Messi stranded at Rosario airport for 10 months

  

  Some 32 ventilators donated by footballer Lionel Messi have been stored at his native Rosario's Fisherton international airport for 10 months, entangled in red tape.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Vaccination for teenagers aged 17 to 12 starts in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay Wednesday became the first country in Latin America to extend its anticovid-19 vaccination campaign to children aged between 12 and 17, it was announced.

• Thursday, June 10th 2021 - 07:33 UTC

  National Geographic makes it official, Southern Ocean is the fifth ocean

  

  Since National Geographic began making maps in 1915, it has recognized four oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. However starting on June 8, World Oceans Day, it will recognize the Southern Ocean as the world’s fifth ocean. This is because the swift current circling Antarctica keeps the waters there distinct and worthy of their own name.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Paraguay needs additional medical oxygen from Brazil

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez Tuesday reached out to his Brazilian colleague Jair Bolsonaro to negotiate the purchase of medical oxygen above the current quota because it is not enough, according to health authorities.

• Wednesday, June 9th 2021 - 09:41 UTC

  Bezos will fly to outer space in his Blue Origin New Shepard rocket on July 20

  

  Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of the multi-national technology Amazon will fly to space next month on the first space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin, the billionaire said.