Health & Science

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Lufthansa lands in Falklands with scientists; returns to Germany on Wednesday

  

  Lufthansa’s longest flight ever has landed in the Falkland Islands. The aircraft departed Hamburg at 21:23 on Sunday, landing at Mount Pleasant Complex at 09:00. The flight, which is also the longest flight to have departed Hamburg, clocked in at 15 hours and 36 minutes.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:28 UTC

  Pfizer-BioNtech promises 75 million more vaccines to EU in 2021 second quarter

  

  BioNtech-Pfizer has promised to deliver up to 75 million more coronavirus vaccine doses to the EU in the second quarter of 2021, the company's head Sierk Poetting said in a statement on Monday.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:11 UTC

  Falklands Latam's links to Chile and Brazil suspended until June

  

  The Falkland Islands Government can confirm that commercial air links with both Chile and Brazil will remain suspended for a further three months until 29 June 2021.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 03:38 UTC

  FIFA and WHO promoting fair access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments

  

  FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) will team up to promote the need for fair access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics, and to encourage people to keep practicing life-saving, everyday public health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus and to protect health.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Lufthansa Airbus A350 en route to Falklands, on its longest non-stop flight

  

  This Sunday, January 31, an Airbus A350-900 takes off on the longest non-stop flight in Lufthansa's history under flight number LH2574: 13,700 kilometers from Hamburg to the Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Covid-19 WHO-probe mission in Wuhan has to keep to agenda and visits organized by Beijing

  

  Reuters – Under tight control by its Chinese hosts, the World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan province, visited a hospital on Saturday that treated early patients.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Falklands: access to MPC remains restricted for fourteen days

  

  The government of the Falkland Islands and officials from Mount Pleasant Complex held on Sunday an extraordinary meeting and decided that access to the Complex will remain restricted for the next fourteen days given the sanitary situation at MPC.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:24 UTC

  Bolivia will be among the first to benefit from WHO's Covax vaccine program

  

  The United Nations mission in Bolivia celebrated the fact that this country will be one of the first to receive vaccines from the multilateral Covax system, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) to guarantee access to these drugs in the world's poorest countries.

• Monday, February 1st 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  World medics call for cooperation in fighting Covid-19, and an end to egotism and nationalism

  

  The World Medical Association called for cooperation to fight egotisms and nationalism in the fight against Covid-19. Speaking at a ceremony this Sunday in Vienna, where the WMA was presented with an award honoring physicians around the world for their fight against the pandemic, Dr. Otmar Kloiber, Secretary-General of the WMA, stressed the need for international co-operation.

• Saturday, January 30th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  EU will monitor (and block) coronavirus vaccine exports out of the continent

  

  The European Commission will monitor and in some cases block coronavirus vaccine exports out of the bloc since it installed a new mechanism on Friday. The move comes amid a row with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over vaccine deliveries.