Tag: Buenos Aires

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Approval of Argentine president pandemic policies eroding, but concern with the virus is still very strong

  

  Approval of Argentine president Alberto Fernandez handling of the pandemic continued to slide during the last week and is at levels similar to those at the start of the quarantine, according to the latest opinion poll from Poliarquia made public over the weekend in Buenos Aires daily La Nacion.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina to announce quarantine extension to 17 July in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández together with Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof and the head of the Buenos Aires City government, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, agreed on Thursday to further implement mobility restrictions, including “a strong decline in vehicle circulation” in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA).

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Argentine couple finally collects their child in Kiev born to a surrogate Ukrainian mother

  

  For parents Jose Perez and Flavia Lavorino, the wait is finally over. On Wednesday, the couple from Buenos Aires met their baby son Manu for the first time, 71 days after he was born to a surrogate mother 12,875km away in Ukraine.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentina auto industry rebounding gradually from zero production in April

  

  The Argentine auto industry bottomed out in April, the first full month of the quarantine in force in the country since March 20. With all its factories closed since that day, not a single vehicle left the assembly lines, a catastrophe without historical precedent. But little by little, last week they came back to life under strict sanitary protocols, with only one shift per day and production at one-third of the installed capacity.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina extends mandatory lockdown in metropolitan Buenos Aires until 7 June

  

  Argentina extended until June 7 a mandatory lockdown in metropolitan Buenos Aires on Saturday and tightened some movement restrictions, after a steady increase in the city's confirmed coronavirus cases in recent days.

• 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 - 13:10 UTC

  Hundreds of activists in Buenos Aires demand food for soup kitchens

  

  Several hundred activists blocked this week one of Buenos Aires' main avenues for hours to demand food for soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands in poor neighborhoods during the mandatory lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of the new coronavirus.

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentina refineries running at minimum capacity because of lack of demand

  

  A Buenos Aires crude oil refinery operated by Argentine state-controlled energy firm YPF is running with a minimal level of workers due to a drop in consumption and a lack of storage space amid a crash in global oil prices during the coronavirus pandemic, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Face masks mandatory in Buenos Aires as of next Wednesday

  

  Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires authorities on Monday announced it was stepping up measures to curb the COVID-19 outbreak by making face masks mandatory on public transit.