Paraguay

• Saturday, April 4th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Pandemic: Paraguay receives US$ 20 million to support its health system

  

  The World Bank Board of Directors approved today a loan of US$20 million to support Paraguay in strengthening its health system in the face of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19). In the context of the country's current health situation, already affected by the worst dengue outbreak in recent years, the project will help strengthen the already overburdened health system through the purchase of medical supplies and equipment.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Covid 19: Mercosur countries isolated from the world and among themselves

  

  The number of Coronavirus cases tested positive are increasing significantly, in the exponential leg of the process, in Mercosur country members and in Chile. Brazil reported the first death, a 62 year old man in Sao Paulo with a medical record of high pressure and diabetes.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Paraguay reports that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and 25 are under quarantine

  

  Paraguay confirmed that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and announced it was closing all schools and universities, public and private, and suspending all public and private activities that involve crowding people, for the next fifteen days.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  Ronaldinho remains in jail in Paraguay on possession of fake passports

  

  Brazilian football great Ronaldinho will remain in pre-trial detention in Paraguay after a judge on Tuesday rejected his lawyer's request that he be released on bail or to house arrest.

• Thursday, March 5th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Brazil and Argentina disputing the presidency of the Inter American Development Bank

  

  Brazil plans to push for its own candidate to lead the Inter-American Development Bank, vying with Argentina for the regional lender’s top job, as President Jair Bolsonaro seeks to capitalize on the political alliance with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.

• Saturday, February 29th 2020 - 07:26 UTC

  Argentina's disease concern is with dengue and the 3.000 cases reported so far

  

  Covid 19 might not be a priority in Argentina at the moment, although there are some cases under observation, but what is really threatening is the mosquito-transmitted dengue with 152 cases confirmed in the province of Buenos Aires and some 3.000 in the northern provinces of Misiones and Corrientes.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:31 UTC

  Mercosur urgent health ministers meeting to address dengue, measles and coronavirus threat

  

  Mercosur health ministers will be holding an urgent meeting this week in Paraguay to address the spread of dengue, the outbreak of measles and the possible arrival of the China coronavirus to the region.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Heavy rains and flooding forecasted for Asuncion, Paraguay and Porto Alegre, Brazil

  

  Although flooding rain has already hit parts of Brazil so far in 2020, more rain and flooding could strike the southern part of the country in the coming week. In addition to southern Brazil, other parts of South America may also be threatened.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 08:37 UTC

  Massive escape from notorious Brazilian gang members from Paraguayan jail

  

  At least 75 inmates, many of them members of a notorious Brazilian gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on Sunday, according to authorities who said they immediately fired the prison’s director. Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many as 200 bags of earth.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:53 UTC

  Mercosur summit in Paraguay will address a review of the external tariff

  

  The upcoming Summit of Heads of State of the Southern Common Market Mercosur, to be held in late June or early July this year, will be held in Encarnacion, capital of Itapúa Department, Paraguay.