Health & Science

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.
Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
New species of Patagonian dinosaur described by scientists

The prestigious Current Biology journal Thursday carried a report on findings by Scientists in Argentina regarding a new giant carnivorous dinosaur found in the country, which has been named “Meraxes.”
Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 17:58 UTC
A judge in Uruguay has prohibited Covid vaccines for children; Health Ministry complies with the ruling

In a Montevideo court, judge Alejandro Recarey notified his final ruling on the appeal for protection filed to stop the vaccination against covid-19 in minors under 13 years of age in Uruguay.
Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 10:10 UTC
Demonstration against Pfizer vaccines staged in Montevideo amidst court hearing

A group of Uruguayan anti-vaccine protesters gathered Wednesday at the courthouse doorstep in support of Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision earlier this week to request information from the Health Ministry (MSP) and the Pfizer laboratory regarding anti-COVID-19 vaccines.