Health & Science

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 16:59 UTC

  To curb spread of Manaus coronavirus strain, France bans flights to Brazil

  

  France's government has banned all flights to/from Brazil effective following the increase of covid-19 cases of the Manaus strain detected in the European nation.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 14:32 UTC

  Argentina finished Antarctica Summer Campaign without Covid-19 cases

  

  Argentina's 2020/2021 Antarctic campaign successfully finished last week after the arrival of the Argentine Navy icebreaker “Almirante Irízar” at the port of Buenos Aires without registering any positive case of Covid-19 among its 392 crew members, military and scientists.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina: Experts advise further restrictions necessary to curb coronavirus spread

  

  Argentine Chief of Cabinet, Santiago Cafiero and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Monday met online with a committee of experts to assess the country's current covid situation. The recommendation was, as expected, harsher restrictions.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  Guterres endorses millionaire's tax to help fight covid-19

  

  UN Secretary-General António Guterres Monday agreed with several world leaders on the convenience to tax the wealthiest, so that States have more resources to support the vulnerable population which has been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentine Government to discuss further restrictions as coronavirus cases soar

  

  Argentina's Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero and Health Minister Carla Vizzotti are to hold a meeting Monday to discuss additional measures as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic seems increasingly out of control.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 10:13 UTC

  Brazil “falls” to third place among covid-19 affected countries behind the U.S. and now India

  

  Brazil has been displaced from its shrine as the world's second-worst country regarding coronavirus infections. Its place has been taken over by India.

• Monday, April 12th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine Journalist Mauro Viale dies of covid-19 aged 73

  

  Famous Argentine TV-radio host and former sportscaster Mauro Viale has died in Buenos Aires at the age of 73 due to covid-19 complications, it was reported. He had received the first dose of the vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus last week.

• Saturday, April 10th 2021 - 10:58 UTC

  Brazil's Anvisa to check Russian Sputnik V manufacturing plant as need for vaccines soars

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) will be sending a delegation to Russia next week to conduct an onsite review of the facilities where the Sputnik V vaccine is manufactured, it was announced Friday.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:38 UTC

  Anti-covid measures lightened in Rio de Janeiro

  

  Starting this Friday, restrictive measures imposed a week ago as a part of the local authorities in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro's strategy against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are to be lightened, it was announced.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:05 UTC

  Venezuela investigates mayor for marking homes of Covid-19 infected people

  

  The mayor of a municipality in the western Venezuelan state of Yaracuy this week forced people to mark the homes of Covid-19 patients in his community with signs to prevent visits and prevent contagion.