Tag: Argentina COVIC-19 coronavirus

• Saturday, July 25th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia provinces under a blanket of snow

  

  Continuous snowfalls have blanketed Argentine Patagonia provinces together with extremely low temperatures, in what is considered the worst winter since the nineties, according to the Argentinean Meteorological System. The meter-high snow is threatening agriculture, livestock and has interrupted traffic.

• Saturday, May 9th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentina extends mandatory lockdown in Buenos Aires and metropolitan area

  

  After 50 days in mandatory lockdown, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández announced on Friday that the quarantine will be extended until May 24th.

• Thursday, May 7th 2020 - 10:42 UTC

  Argentina has more reported cases of dengue (25.000) than of coronavirus (5,200)

  

  Argentina officially has 5.208 COVID 19 confirmed cases with a death toll of 273 since the pandemic broke out. However the country is suffering from even more acute disease infection, the mosquito-transmitted dengue, with some 25.000 confirmed cases, and of which 5.601 in the last three weeks.

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina is not abandoning Mercosur, but “we are in no haste to sign any accord”

  

  Foreign minister Felipe Sola said Argentina is “not abandoning Mercosur, and did not leave any chair at the table”. Furthermore, this Thursday a round of ministerial talks will be taking place, requested by Paraguay, to keep analyzing the legal and institutional framework that some members pretend to speed a list of negotiations with other countries.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 12:58 UTC

  Foreign debt must wait: “the pandemic and Argentines' health are priorities”

  

  Honoring foreign debt will have to wait because given the coronavirus pandemic priority is now the health of the Argentines, said president Alberto Fernandez on Monday, adding he would not let local companies fire o declare workers redundant.

• Monday, March 30th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Argentina satisfied with pandemic quarantine results, extends the circulation ban until 12 April

  

  Mandatory quarantine measures that permit citizens to leave their homes only for essential reasons will remain in place in Argentina until April 12, President Alberto Fernandez announced on Sunday.