Health & Science

Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:58 UTC
COVID-19 infected “Greg Mortimer” Australians expected to leave for Melbourne on Saturday

The sanitary charter aircraft contracted to repatriate Australians on board the coronavirus infected “Greg Mortimer” cruise, stranded off the Uruguayan coast is expected this Thursday in Montevideo, and will be flying to Melbourne on Saturday according to foreign ministry sources.
Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:57 UTC
Falklands: five cases of COVID-19, all of them serving at Mount Pleasant Complex

The Falkland Islands government announced on Wednesday that there are five confirmed cases of COVID-19, all individuals currently serving at the Mount Pleasant Complex, some fifty kilometers from the capital Stanley. This means no residents of the Islands have been contaminated with the virus.
Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:51 UTC
WHO's Tedros rebukes Trump and calls for unity: ”For God's sake ... is this (death toll) not enough?”

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday pleaded for global unity in fighting the coronavirus and gave a strident defense of his agency's handling of the pandemic, in response to US President Donald Trump's criticism.
Thursday, April 9th 2020 - 08:48 UTC
February's services sector confirms Brazil is heading for recession

Services activity in Brazil shrank 1% in February, official figures showed on Wednesday, the biggest monthly fall in over 18 months and another sign Latin America's largest economy was already in go-slow mode before the coronavirus crisis erupted.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 18:30 UTC
BAS ends Antarctic season and organizing the return: chartered ship will leave Falklands for UK 3 May

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has announced exceptional plans to repatriate scientists, support teams and construction workers as they complete their Antarctic summer field season work.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:30 UTC
Sanitary aircraft on Thursday will fly “Greg Mortimer” cruise Australians to Melbourne

A charter flight is expected in Montevideo on Thursday, April 9 to pick up and fly home to Australia most of passengers and crew on the “Greg Mortimer”, the cruise vessel stranded off the coast of Uruguay for the last two weeks because 128 people on board have tested positive for Covid 19.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:24 UTC
3M reaches agreement with Trump administration to export masks to Canada and Latin America

Manufacturing giant 3M said it has an agreement with the Trump administration that will allow the company to continue to export N95 protective masks to Canada and Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 12:17 UTC
The 14,7 million Euro coronavirus masks order that never reached Germany

Authorities in Germany have fallen victim to a multi-million-euro fraud involving masks much needed in the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors said on Tuesday. North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and one of the hardest hit, paid 14.7 million euros for some 10 million masks in March only to discover they did not exist, according to prosecutors in Traunstein, Bavaria.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 10:40 UTC
Boris Johnson spent second night in intensive care: “stable and in good spirits”

Boris Johnson has spent a second night in intensive care as he continues to receive treatment for coronavirus. Mr Johnson is being kept in St Thomas' Hospital in London “for close monitoring”, Downing Street said. The PM is “comfortable, he's stable, he's in good spirits”, said health minister Edward Argar on Wednesday.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 10:33 UTC
Gloria Stefan invites you to sing “Put on your mask”

Another COVID-19 parody song has appeared, this time by Cuban-American singer Gloria Estefan. She posted a video of the song on her Instagram inspired by her 1989 hit Get On Your Feet. This time, however, instead of getting on one’s feet, Estefan is encouraging others to “Put On Your Mask”.