Health & Science

Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:39 UTC
WHO creates experts' network panel to prevent zoonotic outbreaks

The World Health Organization and three other international bodies, FAO, OIE and UNEP have formed a team of experts to help develop a global plan to prevent the spread of diseases from animals to humans.
Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:01 UTC
FAT is beautiful; the powerful F-word has reached the covers of Playboy, Vogue and Sports Illustrated

Being overweight once meant you were shunned, laughed at, and discriminated against. Now a group of large and increasingly vocal and powerful women are leading the campaign to reclaim the F-word as a positive.
Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:00 UTC
German quality control regulator nailed over failed breast implants

German product standards and safety testing giant TÜV Rheinland was found guilty of “negligence” this week after the German firm erred when awarding safety certificates for breast implants.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Most of Argentina under strict confinement as of Saturday

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday decreed nine days of strict confinement starting Saturday in what he claimed was a measure to lower the increasing number of coronavirus cases.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:08 UTC
Last LATAM Argentina Airbus flies back home from Aeroparque which halts regional flights

Operation of regional flights at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA)'s only airfield commonly known as Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport (AEP/SABE), which reopened recently following renovations, have been shifted to the Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini international airport (technically in the Province of Buenos Aires) due to lack of proper coronavirus detecting facilities.
Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:24 UTC
Paraguay to import large amounts of medical oxygen from Brazil

Paraguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday announced 784 tons of oxygen for medical use had been cleared for import from Brazil as part of the anticoronavirus efforts.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:57 UTC
Brazil: Breweries fined heavily for employing undocumented Venezuelan migrants whom they deprived of basic rights

The breweries Ambev and Heineken have been fined heavily in Brazil for the illegal employment in slavery-like conditions of Venezuelan migrants, who will now receive about R $ 657,270 (the US $ 125,000) in compensation.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:51 UTC
Gibraltar message to the cruise industry, “we're back in business”

Gibraltar is ready to welcome back cruise ships, their passengers, and their crew. The Port of Gibraltar and the Gibraltar Tourist Board have continued to work proactively during this pandemic to support the cruise industry.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC
Uruguay eases down travel restrictions against covid-19

The Government of Uruguay Wednesday has decided that foreign travellers with both doses of any vaccine against covid-19 and a negative PCR test will not have to undergo a mandated quarantine upon entry.
Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:39 UTC
Astra-Zeneca vaccines produced jointly by Mexico and Argentina almost ready for delivery

The first batch of Oxford-Astra Zeneca anticoronavirus vaccines produced jointly by Mexico and Argentina are almost ready to start shipping, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Wednesday.