Tag: COVID-19

• Wednesday, January 15th 2025 - 10:29 UTC

  Indec announces Argentina's inflation in 2024 reached 117.8%

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 2.7% in December 2024 for an accumulated 117.8% last year, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) said Tuesday in a report released in Buenos Aires. It was the lowest monthly rate since July 2020 amid strict Covid-19 lockdowns, when inflation reached 1.9%.

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• Friday, January 3rd 2025 - 10:10 UTC

  Covid-19 resurfaces abruptly in Bolivian Dept. of Santa Cruz

  

  Health authorities in the Bolivian Department of Santa Cruz Thursday said that an “abrupt” increase in Covid-19 cases had been detected, due to which they encouraged residents to update their vaccination schemes and adopt all biosecurity protocols. A total of 290 infections were reported last week, 11 of which required hospitalization, including three under ventilation in intensive care units, and one death on Dec. 28. All 11 are unvaccinated patients, it was also explained.

• Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 10:52 UTC

  Lingering symptoms of Covid-19 detected among 20% of Brazilians

  

  Brazil's Health Ministry detected lingering symptoms among 20% of South America's largest country's population having had Covid-19, Agencia Brasil reported. Among the symptoms are fatigue, memory loss, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, joint pain, and hair loss, which have also been found to be more frequent among women and indigenous people.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2024 - 20:37 UTC

  New coronavirus strain detected in southern Brazil

  

  The Rio de Janeiro-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) confirmed the presence in the southern part of the continent's largest country of a sublineage of the Sars-CoV-2 Omicron strain known as XEC, which is rapidly spreading worldwide, Agencia Brasil reported. The variant has been found in the States of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Santa Catarina after Fiocruz made the first discovery in samples from two patients in Rio last month.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 16:52 UTC

  Brazilian physicians worried about respiratory damage caused by widespread fires

  

  Respiratory disease specialists are concerned about people suffering the effects of long-lasting forest fires in several parts of South America's largest country and insist children and the elderly need special attention, Agencia Brasil reported. Excessive smoke in the air coupled with a dry climate has caused discomfort to many, Brazilian Society of Pneumology and Physiology (SBPT) President Margareth Dalcolmo warned.

• Saturday, September 7th 2024 - 10:09 UTC

  Brazilian Bossa Nova legend Sergio Mendes dies aged 83

  

  Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who once won a Grammy Award, succumbed Thursday in the city of Los Angeles to the effects of prolonged Covid-19, according to The Associated Press. He had been facing respiratory problems for months, O Globo reported. The pianist, composer, vocalist, and arranger was 83. He had moved to the United States in 1964 after the military coup d'état.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Former Argentine president sued for extending Covid-19 lockdowns beyond sanitary needs

  

  Federal Prosecutor Guillermo Marijuan and Buenos Aires City Congressman Yamil Santoro filed separate criminal complaints Monday against former President Alberto Fernández after Martín Guzmán, who served as Economy Minister under him, said in an interview that the Covid-19 quarantines were extended for political gain rather than out of a sanitary concern.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2024 - 08:46 UTC

  Mpox not the new Covid-19, WHO official explains

  

  Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional director for Europe, admitted Tuesday that mpox would not lead to a “cycle of panic” and lockdowns like Covid-19 did, despite the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) declaration.

• Thursday, July 18th 2024 - 09:13 UTC

  Biden tests positive for Covid-19 as concerns over his health mount

  

  US President Joseph Biden tested positive for Covid-19 in Las Vegas Wednesday just one day after admitting that he would be stepping out of his reelection campaign only if a medical condition so advised. Following his diagnosis, the 81-year-old leader, who lost his debate with former President Donald Trump and is visibly battling his physical condition to remain active, flew to his Delaware vacation home to recover. He was said to have mild respiratory symptoms and “general malaise.”

• Monday, July 8th 2024 - 07:15 UTC

  New variants of Covid-19 spreading rapidly worldwide

  

  Ecuadorean health authorities have reported that the new FLiRT (KP.2) variant of Covid-19 had reached the country after two individuals -a 24-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman- tested positive in the Cotopaxi province. Both patients were vaccinated, the Health Ministry also noted. Local experts recalled that although not lethal, FLiRT was highly contagious, and therefore insisted on the importance of personal hygiene.