Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  City of Buenos Aires bans all non-urgent surgical procedures to free up hospitals for covid-19 patients

  

  Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta Thursday ordered all health care facilities regardless of whether public or private to cancel every non-urgent surgical procedure or treatment scheduled for the coming days to make room for the increasing number of covid-19 patients who need hospitalization, it was announced.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  UNWTO enhances Green Pass to rebuild confidence in international air travel

  

  The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Wednesday took advantage of the Ibero-American Summit held in Andorra in a dual-mode with some leaders present and the others delivering speeches online to highlight its new Destination Tracker, an app produced jointly with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), as a tool to guarantee safe international travel throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Chilean Senate sinks Piñera into deeper isolation regarding withdrawal of pension funds

  

  Chile's Senate Thursday passed a bill whereby people shall be allowed to withdraw an additional ten per cent from the pension funds to be able to cope with the hardships caused by job losses and the closing of businesses owing to the restrictive health measures against Covid-19.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Tourism in South America will not bounce back at least until 2022

  

  In the absence of foreign travellers from Europe, the United States, Canada or Japan, tourism in South America is unble to hide its fragility going through the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused a major drop in visitors, it was reported. And there's not a single sign of recovery before 2022, according to industry analysts.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Argentine opposition agrees to postponing primary, general elections

  

  The Juntos por el Cambio (Together for Change - JxC) opposition coalition Thursday agreed to reschedule this year's primary and general mid-term election to allow for a better anti-covid-19 campaign, it was announced.

• Friday, April 23rd 2021 - 04:38 UTC

  Brazil, Judge orders beaches and bars of Rio de Janeiro must go back to business as usual

  

  The beaches of Rio de Janeiro were allowed to start welcoming visitors again since Wednesday, following a court order which found Mayor Eduardo Paes' ban was unconstitutional.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Vaccine passport reportedly coming up in Uruguay soon but no official announcement yet

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister Germán Cardoso Wednesday raised again the issue of vaccination certificates for foreign travellers to “guarantee the sanitary status” of the country.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Uruguayan President: competition between countries must not prevail to fight covid-19

  

  During his speech at the XXVII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, which is held in Andorra although most participants make only video appearances, Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday launched an appeal to his fellow leaders to find new ways in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 23:53 UTC

  LATAM to resume Falkland Island routes Oct. 1, Covid-19 permitting

  

  Further to the announcement made on 1 February, the Falkland Islands Government can confirm that commercial air links with both Chile and Brazil will remain suspended until 1 October 2021.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 20:16 UTC

  Paraguay redirects funds from binational electric plants to anticovid effort

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez wants funds belonging to both binational hydroelectric plants, namely Itaipú and Yacyretá, redirected to the anticovid-19 effort and has instructed Directors Manuel María Cáceres and Nicanor Duarte Frutos to proceed accordingly.