Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Maduro complains sanctions are hurting Venezuela's ability to fight the pandemic and consequences

  

  Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Monday denounced international sanctions against his country, saying they have limited the government’s ability to fight the health and economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis. European Union foreign ministers on Monday imposed new sanctions on 19 leading Venezuelan officials.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Pfizer plans to deliver 13 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine per week to US

  

  Drug maker Pfizer announced it expects to deliver more than 13 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine per week to the United States by the middle of March, more than doubling its shipments from early February, a top Pfizer executive said in prepared testimony ahead of a Tuesday congressional hearing.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  February a poor month for industrial confidence in Brazil

  

  A survey from the prestigious Getulio Vargas foundation showed that Brazilian industrial confidence fell in February for a second consecutive month, further evidence that the economy is losing steam and could even contract in the first quarter.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:53 UTC

  Argentina publishes the VIP list, who received preferential Covid-19 vaccine treatment

  

  The Argentine government has published a list of 70 influential figures, mostly politicians and close friends and family members, who have received preferential vaccine Covid-19 treatment, at the Posadas Hospital in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Moment of silence and flags at half mast in US to commemorate 500,000 deaths from Covid-19

  

  President Joe Biden led the United States in observing a moment of silence on Monday to commemorate the grim milestone of 500,000 US deaths from Covid-19, urging Americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic together.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina authorizes emergency use of Sinopharm's vaccine; one million doses expected

  

  ANMAT, Argentina’s drug regulator has authorized the emergency use of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine ahead of an expected delivery of 1 million doses of the Chinese-made jab.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  “Gines was a great minister, but what he did was unforgivable”, Argentine president

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez blasted his former health minister, and close friend, Gines Gonzalez García over an “unforgivable” coronavirus vaccine scandal, in quotes published on Sunday.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  Russia announces approval of CoviVac, a third vaccine for domestic use

  

  Russia approved a third coronavirus vaccine for domestic use, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on state TV, though large-scale clinical trials of the shot, labeled CoviVac and produced by the Chumakov Centre, have yet to begin.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  US reaches 500,000 Covid-19 related deaths; vaccination rate of 1,7 million a day

  

  The United States over the weekend reached the grim milestone of 500,000 Covid-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, as the nation's top virus expert warned a semblance of normalcy may not return until the end of the year.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 07:30 UTC

  PM Johnson pledges all UK adults can be vaccinated by end of July

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged that every adult in the United Kingdom should have been offered a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July. The accelerated vaccine rollout would help protect the most vulnerable sooner and also enable the easing of some restrictions, the prime minister said.