Health & Science

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil confirms second case of coronavirus: patient who arrived from Italy

  

  Brazil’s Health Ministry over the weekend confirmed the country’s second case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, diagnosed in a 32-year-old patient in São Paulo who had recently visited Italy and arrived on Thursday.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:51 UTC

  Gibraltar bans tourists arriving from sixteen “at risk” coronavirus countries

  

  Gibraltar has started banning people entering from coronavirus-hit countries. In a document sent to the Japanese embassy in London, Gibraltar said it “may deny” entry to people who have visited any of 16 “dangerous countries” which have been hit by coronavirus.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:20 UTC

  African swine fever kills 3.000 pigs in Indonesia

  

  Indonesia is tightening curbs on the transport of pigs and pork products after nearly 3,000 animals died in a new outbreak of African swine fever in an eastern province bordering East Timor, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:19 UTC

  Hyundai closes a factory in South Korea because of coronavirus

  

  Hyundai Motor shut down a factory in South Korea on Friday after a worker tested positive for the new coronavirus, disrupting production of popular models such as Palisade sport utility vehicle.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Covid 19 re-infection surprise: some discharged patients are testing positive again

  

  A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:49 UTC

  Brazil's beef industry hit by drop in Chinese demand; cattle price down 10% in January

  

  China’s beef imports will fall in the first half of 2020 due to fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, which is complicating the circulation of people and trade globally, Rabobank said in a report released on Thursday.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentina's disease concern is with dengue and the 3.000 cases reported so far

  

  Covid 19 might not be a priority in Argentina at the moment, although there are some cases under observation, but what is really threatening is the mosquito-transmitted dengue with 152 cases confirmed in the province of Buenos Aires and some 3.000 in the northern provinces of Misiones and Corrientes.

• Friday, February 28th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentine health minister says no Covid-19 cases in the country; all suspects proved negative

  

  Argentina's Health minister Gines Gonzalez García reported on Wednesday from Cordoba that the 21 cases of suspected Covid-19 finally proved negative and underlined that all protocols to face the epidemics are active and in place to try and contain any outbreak.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 18:17 UTC

  UN report: Smoking and drinking linked to recreational drug use by the youth

  

  The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) annual report cites studies that reveal that, in young people aged between 16 and 19, early use of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis leads to an increased likelihood of the use of opiates and cocaine in adulthood.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 07:01 UTC

  UNWTO & WHO: Joint Statement on Tourism and Coronavirus COVID-19

  

  As the current outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) continues to develop, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) are committed to working together in guiding the travel and tourism sectors’ response to COVID-19.