Health & Science

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine on Tuesday

  

  Argentina will begin vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus on Tuesday using the recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the government said on Saturday, following its approval by health authorities for emergency use.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  WHO chief warns Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic: climate change and animal welfare must be addressed

  

  The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's chief said.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Hot food and drinks shop found buried under the volcanic ashes or Pompeii

  

  Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Indonesia asks Brazil for data on the Chinese vaccine

  

  With the slow development of its own phase three clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Indonesia said it has asked for data from Brazil, where a similar trial is progressing smoothly.

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Pope Francis calls on political and business leaders to make the Covid-19 vaccines available to all

  

  Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Friday said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid-19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and ”the virus of radical individualism.”

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  A year that will go down in Falklands history

  

  For many people, 2020 has been a year they would like to forget. But it’s a year that will go down in Falklands history for one very positive reason.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Argentina authorizes Sputnik V vaccine; first batch of 300.000 doses expected on Thursday

  

  Argentina's health ministry said on Wednesday it has given the controversial Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine “emergency” authorization, making the country the first in Latin America to do so. The first shipment of the total 25 million doses of the vaccine bought by the Argentine government is due to arrive on Thursday.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Argentina lockdown until 8 January

  

  Argentina established new requirements for entering and leaving the country, starting on Friday through January 8, the Interior Ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday, in a bid to rein in the coronavirus.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Chinese vaccine 50% effective, reports Sao Paulo lab, but half of Brazilians reject inoculation

  

  Brazilian researchers said on Wednesday the COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech is more than 50% effective based on trial data, but again withheld full results at the company's request, raising questions about transparency.

• Thursday, December 24th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Sao Paulo state doubles lockdown measures over Xmas and New Year

  

  Brazil's southeast state of Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the country's COVID-19 outbreak, said this week it will double down on lockdown measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus over the Christmas and New Year holidays.