Health & Science

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Face masks make compulsory return to some Uruguayan settings

  

  Effective Thursday, Uruguay's health authorities have reinstated the mandatory wear of face coverings in certain indoor settings, in light of an increasing number of cases of COVID-19, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  First case of monkeypox confirmed in Brazil

  

  A 41-year-old man from São Paulo who had just returned from Spain has been confirmed Wednesday as Brazil's first case of monkeypox. The patient is now in isolation at the Emilio Ribas Hospital in South America's largest city, which is also monitoring a 26-year-old woman, also in isolation, but with no travel record.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Community transmission of monkeypox already happening, WHO says

  

  World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his concern following new data on the spread of monkeypox allowing scientists to say community transmission of the malady is already occurring.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 19:17 UTC

  President Lacalle tests positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Summit of the Americas

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou has tested positive for COVID-19 and will therefore skip this week's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, he announced on his Twitter account.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Brazil: Mr. and Mrs. Lula test positive for COVID-19

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife Janja tested positive Sunday for COVID-19, due to which all campaign engagements have been suspended, the candidate's press office announced.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  4th dose of covid-19 vax will be the last until next year, Buenos Aires Minister forecasts

  

  Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós said he believed it was “very likely” that the fourth dose of covid-19 vaccine would be the last this year and that the next immunization campaign will be ahead of the 2023 fall.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Different candidates for PAHO chair

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Thursday announced candidates from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, and Uruguay were vying to succeed Dominica's Carissa Etienne of Dominica as agency head.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  Uruguayan authorities suspect 4 cases of monkeypox

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) Thursday announced it was monitoring four cases suspected of being monkeypox. All of them are of people with a travel history to countries where the malady has already been detected.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 06:35 UTC

  Sao Paulo authorities recommend wearing facemasks, as C-19 cases surge

  

  Sao Paulo City health authorities have advised the citizenry Wednesday to go back to wearing facemasks in indoor settings due to the increase of COVID-19 cases recorded in recent weeks. The measure will only be mandatory “in health facilities and in public transport such as buses, trains, and subways.”

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:11 UTC

  Across the Atlantic from UK to the Falklands, for a first autonomous marine research vessel

  

  Britain's Plymouth Marine Laboratory has commissioned Plymouth-based M Subs Ltd to design and build the autonomous mono-hulled vessel, supported by funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. The vessel-sub Oceanus is scheduled to make its inaugural voyage from the UK to the Falkland Islands, doing marine research along the way without any crew on board.