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Montevideo, April 20th 2024 - 05:14 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:57 UTC

    Dramatic Covid-19 situation in Southern Brazil threatens Rivera, Uruguay

    Uruguay is very concerned, and threatened, by the situation in the city of Rivera, bordering the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state, where the number of infections is alarming and continues to grow, while the Intensive Care Centers in the capital Porto Alegre are saturated.

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

    American Airlines cancels routes from the US to Montevideo and Santiago

    The airline has now announced its routes from the USA to Montevideo, Uruguay and Santiago, Chile will also be stopped

    American Airlines has extended the suspension and cancellation of numerous international flights including to regions that have not yet been severely impacted by the coronavirus, such as Latin America. The Fort-Worth-based airline says on 10 March that it is cutting summer international capacity by about 10% and April domestic capacity by 7.5% in response to decreasing demand.

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

    Icelandair's 42 hours flight to Antarctica and home again

    The charter flight included offloading provisions for the research station's staff who will remain at Troll this winter, and to pick up scientists returning to Norway

    In its presentation, Icelandair says it usually flies closer to the Arctic Circle, but on this occasion, the trip was 4 days and 42 flight hours from the top of the world to the bottom, and home again. On Friday, February 26, an Icelandair Boeing 767 (TF-ISN), landed at Troll airfield (QAT) at the Troll research station operated by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

  • Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

    The Haves and Have-nots of the Digital Age

    Despite the promise of digital transformation, it can also drive unequal outcomes in education, opportunities, and access to health care and financial services

    By Gita Bhatt (*) – Accelerated by the pandemic, the digital future is coming at us faster than ever before, and maybe faster than we can imagine. In this issue, we explore the possible consequences —the good, the bad, and the gray.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

    Uruguay: Pepe Mujica says the pandemic helped Lacalle Pou’s government

    Former president Pepe Mujica (2010-2015) said that Uruguay “had the opportunity to start vaccinating three months ago and we let it pass because we were confident or for ideological reasons”

    The former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica criticized the government of Luis Lacalle Pou and assured that the Covid-19 pandemic “helped” to improve his image. ”The pandemic is white (in reference to the color of the ruling party)“ and ”brought a big help“ to the government, said the former president in a radial interview on Wednesday. ”He has no responsibility, but he positioned himself well in the situation and knew how to take advantage of it”, he assured.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

    White House financial support for Merck and Johnson & Johnson to speed vaccine production

    J&J was contracted to deliver 200 million doses to the federal government by the end of May and roughly a billion doses globally by end-2021. Photo: Getty Images

    White House senior adviser Andy Slavitt told reporters on Tuesday that the federal government is planning to spend US$100 million to help the joint partnership between Merck & Co and rival Johnson & Johnson accelerate vaccine production.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

    Elimination of masks, “Neanderthal thinking”, Biden tell state governors

    Biden told reporters: “I think it's a big mistake. Look, I hope everybody's realized by now, these masks make a difference.”

    US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that decisions to end the required wearing of masks, as is happening in several states, including Texas, amounted to “Neanderthal thinking” given the rising death toll from the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 07:07 UTC

    Argentina and the IMF: Another Default in the Works?

    President Alberto Fernandez and Economy Minister Martin Guzmán

    By Arturo Porzecanski (*) The following was published in the Americas Quarterly, a contribution from a leading emerging-market economist writes. The seeds for the latest chapter in Argentina’s long history of confrontations with the International Monetary Fund were planted about a year ago, on the eve of the global pandemic.

  • Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:56 UTC

    Merck & Co to the rescue of Johnson & Johnson single shot Covid-19 vaccine

    Under its contract, J&J was supposed to deliver 12 million doses by the end of February, but had fewer than four million ready to ship

    Merck & Co will help make rival Johnson & Johnson's single-shot Covid-19 vaccine in a partnership set to be announced on Tuesday by US President Joe Biden, a White House official said. J&J's vaccine production has been slower than promised.

  • Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 08:08 UTC

    The great Pele received his first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, “unforgettable day”

    Pele said. “The pandemic is not over yet. We must keep discipline to preserve lives until many people have taken the vaccine.”

    The great Brazilian football star Pele received his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, calling it an “unforgettable day.” The 80-year-old Brazilian football great posted the news on his social media channels along with a picture of himself receiving the shot in his right arm.