Health & Science

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Thousands waving national flags demonstrate across Argentina to protest against government plans

  

  Thousands of demonstrators across Argentina's main cities defied social distancing rules to answer calls to protest against a government announcement last Friday to extend containment measures in the Buenos Aires region until Aug 30 and to condemn a controversial reform of the judicial branch.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Brazil and China drafting a protocol for chicken slaughterhouses to avoid Covid-19

  

  Following China's claims to have found traces of the new coronavirus in chicken wings from Brazil, the two countries are in negotiations to establish a protocol to prevent contamination of Covid-19 in slaughterhouses that export to the Asian largest economy.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  US opioid epidemic: US$ 2,2 trillion claim filed against Purdue Pharma and Sackler family

  

  U.S. states claimed they are owed US$ 2.2 trillion to address harm from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP’s alleged role in America’s opioid epidemic, accusing the drug-maker in new filings of pushing prescription painkillers on doctors and patients while playing down the risks of abuse and overdose.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Climate change could trigger epidemics: malaria, dengue, zika, smallpox and pathogens from Siberian permafrost

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe and claimed more than 760,000 lives so far almost certainly came from a wild bat, highlighting the danger of humanity's constant encroachment on the planet's dwindling wild spaces.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Half of Brazilians think Bolsonaro has “no responsibility at all” for the 100,000 pandemic's dead

  

  Almost half of Brazilians think President Jair Bolsonaro bears “no responsibility at all” for the country’s more than 100,000 dead from the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s second-highest death toll, according to a new Datafolha poll.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:53 UTC

  Latin America coronavirus cases exceed six million and continue to accelerate

  

  Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceed six million and continued to accelerate, according to the WHO figures, as most of its nations begin to relax lockdown measures.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico besides AstraZeneca is also working with French, US and Chinese labs for a Covid-19 vaccine

  

  Mexico will need up to 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses, according to a senior government official, and inoculation of its 120 million inhabitants could start as early as April if clinical trials and regulatory approvals for pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca go as planned.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Spaniards march in Madrid chanting “freedom” to protest mandatory facemasks

  

  Chanting “freedom”, hundreds of people rallied on Sunday in Madrid to protest against the mandatory use of facemasks and other restrictions imposed by the Spanish government to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  New Zealand's PM Jacinda Arden postpones the general election to October 17

  

  New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday postponed the general election by four weeks to Oct 17 but ruled out delaying it any further, as the country tackles a new outbreak of the coronavirus.

• Saturday, August 15th 2020 - 09:52 UTC

  Health care workers in Peru protest demanding better pay and working conditions

  

  Health care workers in Peru held a demonstration demanding better pay and working conditions as more of their colleagues become infected with the coronavirus. Members of medical workers’ unions appealed for government help during a rally outside the Health Ministry.