Tag: COVID-19

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  Countries and airlines discuss “health passports” hoping to re launch travel

  

  From digital certificates to “health passports”, countries and airlines across the globe are hoping to re-launch travel by letting people prove their Covid-free status. But with patchy vaccine access around the world and mounting concerns over data privacy, questions are swirling about how the measures will work in practice.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:31 UTC

  Fourth day of protests in Paraguay because of government's handling of the pandemic

  

  Groups of Paraguayans protested around the Congress on Monday, marking the fourth day of protests amid calls to impeach President Mario Abdo over the government's handling of the Covid-19 health crisis.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  A third of world travel destinations remain closed to international tourism, UNWTO report

  

  Around a third of 217 world travel destinations’ borders surveyed remain completely closed to international tourists, as concerns grow over the impact of new coronavirus variants, and some governments reverse efforts to ease restrictions, a new report released on Monday by the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) revealed.

• Tuesday, March 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Greek 37 day old baby dies from Covid-19

  

  Greece on Monday mourned a 37-day-old baby, the youngest among the country's nearly 6,800 COVID-19 victims. “Sadly today we had the pandemic's youngest victim in our country, an infant that spent 17 of its 37 days fighting the coronavirus,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  Brazilian state of Mato Grosso admits its hospital network has collapsed

  

  Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, the largest grain producer in the country, announced on Sunday that its hospital network has begun to collapse, as there is a lack of intensive care beds due to the increasing number of patients suffering from COVID-19.

• Monday, March 8th 2021 - 08:35 UTC

  Maduro and wife Cilia Flores receive first doses of Sputnik vaccine, as shown by state television

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores have received their first doses of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Venezuelan state television reported, while the country received a second shipment of the vaccine.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro tells Brazilians stop whining about the pandemic and Sao Paulo governor calls him “crazy guy”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro has told Brazilians to “stop whining” about Covid-19, as he criticized measures to curb the virus despite a surge in cases and deaths. His comments came a day after Brazil saw a record rise in deaths over a 24-hour period.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  World Bank approves US$ 420 million loan to Argentina for sanitation and housing

  

  The World Bank Board of Directors approved a US$ 300 million loan to expand and improve water and sanitation services in Metropolitan Buenos Aires, particularly in the most vulnerable areas. An additional US$ 120 million will be available for the construction of social housing, benefiting nearly 10,000 inhabitants of Buenos Aires Province.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Maersk forecasts 3% world trade growth; regulations a challenge in Mercosur

  

  The shipping company Maersk expects world trade to grow by 3% or more in 2021. The company sees global trade recovering, but there is still a lot of uncertainty about the size of the impact of Covid-19 on the world economy in 2021. So it is implementing a global strategy that positions it for growth in several countries, including Mercosur members.

• Saturday, March 6th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Pandemic has pushed 20 million Latin Americans into poverty, UN report

  

  More than 20 million people were pushed into poverty during pandemic-plagued 2020 across Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. economic agency for the region announced this week.