Health & Science

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  COVID-19 vaccination in Rio going on... but slowly

  

  Rio de Janeiro city health authorities Wednesday explained vaccination against COVID-19was going on at a pace slower than they would hope for, amid reports of a growing number of cases and the appearance of more contagious variants.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 09:09 UTC

  Number of monkeypox cases in Brazil reaches 106

  

  Brazilian health authorities Wednesday confirmed the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox nationwide had reached 106, with 75 of them in São Paulo and 20 in Rio de Janeiro.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Peru returns to blanket mandatory wearing of facemasks

  

  Peruvian health authorities Monday reinstated the mandatory wearing of facemasks both in indoor and outdoor settings in light of the fourth wave of COVID-19 hitting the country.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguayan judge demands explanations regarding Pfizer's COVID-19 vax

  

  An Uruguayan court has ruled that the national government and the laboratory Pfizer must disclose during a hearing this coming Wednesday the exact components of the COVID-19 vaccine of that brand which is widely used throughout the country.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Number of monkeypox cases in Brazil reportedly reaches 78

  

  The Brazilian state-run news service Agencia Brasil Sunday confirmed 76 cases of monkeypox nationwide, while CNN spoke of 78 detections as the malady begins to spread throughout the country.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 08:36 UTC

  LATAM air link to Falklands from Chile normalized after 30 months

  

  The commercial air link between Punta Arenas, southern Chile, and the Falkland Islands resumed last Saturday after an absence of more than two years because of the Covid 19 pandemic.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 21:48 UTC

  Uruguay, the worst in the Americas for suicides, reached a new record for self-murders in 2021

  

  Despite the fact that Uruguay has been positioned by many indicators as one of the most advanced countries in terms of socioeconomic equality in the least egalitarian region of the world, where access to health and solid institutions with low corruption rates is relatively guaranteed in relation to its neighbors in the region, the Uruguayan Ministry of Public Health (MSP) reported that last year there were 758 suicides, which is equivalent to a rate of 21.39 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants.

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Penguins at most risk off South Africa after predator whales seize the area

  

  A study released this week in the peer-reviewed African Journal of Marine Science, would show that killer orcas are behind the finding of eight white sharks dead off the coast of Gansbaai, in western South Africa in 2017.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 20:12 UTC

  Fifth case of monkeypox reported in Rio de Janeiro

  

  Rio de Janeiro state officials Wednesday confirmed the fifth local case of monkeypox, while four others are still under investigation, it was reported.

• Thursday, June 30th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Fifth case of monkeypox detected in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities have confirmed a fifth case nationwide of monkeypox, it was reported Wednesday.