Health & Science

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  New Zealand health minister loses his job given “unhelpful distractions”

  

  New Zealand's health minister, David Clark, resigned on Thursday following recent slip-ups in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and personal mistakes.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Brazil restricts the entrance of foreigners for 30 days fearing the second wave of Covid-19 cases

  

  Brazil's government will restrict the entrance of foreigners to the country for 30 days due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it said in a decree late on Tuesday in its official gazette.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  New York imposes 14-day quarantine on travelers arriving from eight US states

  

  People arriving in New York from an additional eight states must quarantine themselves for 14 days amid the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered this week.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 10:14 UTC

  Covid-19 collapse in working hours; ILO says situation of the Americas is particularly dire

  

  The coronavirus crisis has taken a much heavier toll on jobs than previously feared, the UN said Tuesday, warning that the situation in the Americas was particularly dire. In a fresh study, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that by the mid-year point, global working hours were down 14% compared to last December - equivalent to some 400 million full-time jobs.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 18:04 UTC

  Uruguay in the list of 14 countries to which the Europe Union opens its borders

  

  The European Union agreed on Tuesday to reopen its borders to 14 countries excluding the virus-stricken US, as the pandemic accelerated globally with more than 505,000 deaths worldwide. Of Latin America the only country included in the list is Uruguay.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:43 UTC

  New flu virus found in Chinese pigs with a potential of a “pandemic”

  

  A new flu virus found in Chinese pigs has become more infectious to humans and needs to be watched closely in case it becomes a potential “pandemic virus”, a study said, although experts said there is no imminent threat.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:03 UTC

  WHO calls on Brazil to do more and integrate efforts at different levels of government

  

  Brazil still faces a “big challenge” to curb the coronavirus pandemic and should do more to integrate its efforts at different levels of government, a top World Health Organization official said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Johnson: Coronavirus, a disaster for the UK; Labour leader Starmer: PM has been asleep on the wheel

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus crisis had been a disaster for the United Kingdom and while the government would look at what went wrong, it was not the right time to have an inquiry into missteps.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  South Pole warming at three times the global rate over the last three decades

  

  At the South Pole, considered the coldest point on Earth, temperatures are rising fast. So fast, in fact, that Kyle Clem and other climate researchers began to worry and wonder whether human-driven climate change was playing a bigger role than expected in Antarctica.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:46 UTC

  Schools and non essential shops in Leicester ordered closed after an outbreak of coronavirus

  

  The British government on Monday ordered schools and non-essential shops in the central English city of Leicester to close after a localized outbreak of coronavirus. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said nationwide moves to ease a three-month lockdown would be reversed in Leicester, where the infection rate is three times as high as the next worst-affected city.