Tag: Buenos Aires

Saturday, April 11th 2020 - 10:08 UTC
Argentina extends lockdown in urban areas until April 27

Argentina will extend until April 27 the lockdown it imposed last month to control the spread of the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said in a televised address on Friday, adding that the measure would be applied only in major cities.
Tuesday, March 24th 2020 - 10:03 UTC
With the pandemic, Argentina has “a thousand more reasons” to delay debt payments

Argentina does not plan to resume debt payments to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for five years, buying time to pull the economy out of a worsening recession after the coronavirus outbreak led the government to impose a stay-at-home order until the end of March which also put the brakes- on activity
Monday, March 16th 2020 - 10:40 UTC
Tierra del Fuego rushes 400 tourists to Buenos Aires from an Antarctic cruise

The Argentine Tierra del Fuego province government rushed some 400 passengers from a cruise vessel, by air, to Buenos Aires before the implementation of a coronavirus fourteen-day quarantine which becomes effective this Monday. The Norwegian flagged vessel Midnatsol arrived on Saturday to Ushuaia from Antarctica.
Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 08:15 UTC
Coronavirus cases in Argentina climbs to 17; minister admits the virus arrived faster than expected

Argentina's health ministry announced on Monday five new confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking the total number to 17. All of them were described as imported cases since they involved people who arrived from overseas. They include a patient in Buenos Aires City, two from Chaco province, one from San Luis and the fifth in Patagonia Rio Negro province.
Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:58 UTC
Argentina reports eight confirmed cases of Covid-19

The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Argentina has risen from two to eight within the past 24 hours, the national Health Ministry said.
Friday, March 6th 2020 - 11:00 UTC
Argentina reports second confirmed case of Covid-19

Argentina's health officials confirmed the country's second Covid-19 case, a young man currently interned in a private hospital in Buenos Aires. The patient, a 23-year old staff member of a Buenos Aires elected councilor visited the north of Italy and was back on March first, but two days later had a peak of fever and other suspicious symptoms.
Friday, March 6th 2020 - 11:00 UTC
IMF has held “productive talks” in Buenos Aires and leaves this Friday

An International Monetary Fund team currently in Argentina has held “productive” talks with local officials, a spokesman said on Thursday, though there was little detail on concrete progress about reaching a deal over the country’s debt crisis.
Wednesday, March 4th 2020 - 07:59 UTC
Argentina and Chile reported their first confirmed cases of coronavirus patients

Argentina and Chile both said on Tuesday they had confirmed their first case of the novel coronavirus in patients who recently returned from travels. A 43-year-old infected Argentine man had returned from Italy on March 1, while a 33-year-old Chilean man had spent a month in southeast Asia.
Thursday, February 20th 2020 - 18:20 UTC
Thousands of women with green scarves rally in Argentina in support of bill to legalize abortion

Thousands of women, many sporting the green scarves that have become the symbol of Argentina's abortion rights movement, rallied in Buenos Aires and other cities on Wednesday to campaign for a new bill to legalize abortion.
Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:54 UTC
Incoming Uruguayan foreign minister invited by Argentina's Felipe Solá

This Tuesday the incoming Uruguayan foreign minister Ernesto Talvi will be in Buenos Aires on an invitation from his future peer Felipe Solá, which has been interpreted as the first formal contact between the Kirchnerite government of Alberto Fernandez and that of president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou, who takes office on March first.