Health & Science

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 07:56 UTC

  PAHO says monkeypox in the region moderate but worrisome

  

  Pan American Health Organization Director Carissa Etienne Wednesday said the monkeypox scenario in the region was worrisome, albeit moderate, and that vaccines were nearly non-available worldwide.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Evo says Argentine motorbiker was not denied medical help

  

  Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Tuesday said over lunch at Casa Rosada with President Alberto Fernández that the retired Salta teacher who died after a motorcycling accident near Santa Cruz de la Sierra had received all possible medical care, thus contradicting statements from his family and friends.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:38 UTC

  PAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the country.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  Number of monkeypox cases in Brazil crosses 200 threshold

  

  Brazilian health authorities Monday confirmed there were 219 confirmed cases of monkeypox nationwide, with the bulk of them in São Paulo (158) and Rio de Janeiro (34), according to an Agência Brasil report.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 20:52 UTC

  Life expectancy drops from 2019 figures, UN says

  

  The United Nations' World Population Prospects (WPP) report released Monday foresees the world's population will reach 8 billion people by November of 2022 and that India will surpass China as the country with the largest number of inhabitants.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Uruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people

  

  Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Face masks again become mandatory in Punta Arenas because of Covid and respiratory viruses

  

  Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales, southern Chile, have again reinstated the mandatory use of face masks in closed spaces and in open places where people can't keep a physical distance of at least one meter. Likewise massive events will have a maximum presence of 10,000 people with face masks, and there will also be limits to the Mobility Pass, unless space allows a one meter distance minimum.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Moderna's pediatrics vax to become available in Argentina later this month

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Friday announced her country was about to receive the first batch of 1,400,000 doses of Moderna's pediatric COVID-19 vaccine to be applied to children between six months and three years of age.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  New bird species spotted in northern Argentina

  

  The red-winged brant (Myiozetetes cayanensis), a member of the brant family that had never before been recorded in Argentina, has been sighted in Iguazú, in the province of Misiones, by a Paraguayan tourist who alerted forest rangers about his findings.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged under 13 years of age to be halted.