Health & Science

Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 10:13 UTC
Food delivery drivers take to the streets in Sao Paulo to protest working conditions

More than a thousand food delivery drivers on motorcycles gathered in São Paulo on Wednesday to protest their work conditions, set by Uber Technologies Inc and makers of other apps, as their services remain in high demand due to coronavirus lockdowns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.