Health & Science

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  China slowly lifting some COVID-19 restrictions

  

  As Chinese authorities are beginning to announce a gradual easing of the harsh measures imposed as per the country's zero-COVID policy, one episode in Beijing has resulted in additional restrictions, it was reported.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Monkeypox far from becoming a pandemic, WHO experts explain

  

  A leading World Health Organization (WHO) scientist has been reported as saying there were no concerns about the monkeypox outbreak ever evolving into a pandemic like COVID-19.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months 

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

  Two cases of monkeypox confirmed in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities Friday confirmed the first two cases of monkeypox in the country. Both men had been in Spain recently but are not connected.

• Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Lacalle Pou said Uruguay not going back to sanitary restrictions

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday said going back to sanitary restrictions over an increase in cases of COVID-19 was not on the table.

• Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Oldest man in the world turns 113

  

  Venezuelan resident Juan Vicente Perez Mora is turning 113 years old Friday. The Spain-born man is officially the world's longest-living man, according to the Guinness organization.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 21:28 UTC

  Genes make Antarctica bacteria immune to antibiotics

  

  A team of Chilean scientists doing research in Antarctica has come up with bacteria resistant to antibiotics and other man-developed treatments thanks to information passed on through genes, it was reported.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil not to isolate monkeypox patients, for now, Anvisa says

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) Tuesday made it clear that measures already in place at airports and inside airplanes were being upped to protect people from COVID-19 as well as from other diseases and pointed out it isolating patients to tackle monkeypox was not among the recommendations issued.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 10:04 UTC

  First case of monkeypox detected in Argentina?

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry of Health Sunday announced the first suspected case of monkeypox had been detected in the country and that it was being monitored closely.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  COVID-19 continues to spread in Argentina, Chile

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry Sunday reported 43,487 new cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days, a 27.94% increase over the previous report, in addition to 49 deaths due to the pandemic in the same period. The number of weekly cases has grown by more than 284% in one month.