Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, September 19th 2022 - 08:30 UTC

  Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children in Brazil to become available soon

  

  Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children aged between 6 months and 4 years will be released as soon as it is cleared by technical experts from the Health Ministry, it was announced in Brasilia during the weekend.

• Thursday, September 15th 2022 - 08:29 UTC

  WHO sees end of COVID-19 pandemic nearing

  

  World Health Organization (WHO) Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic was “within reach,” after promising figures were released.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2022 - 18:29 UTC

  Truss officially becomes UK's new Prime Minister

  

  In a ceremony at Balmoral Castle, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Tuesday made the 47-year-old Liz Truss' appointment as Prime Minister official. Earlier in the day, the monarch had accepted Boris Johnson's resignation.

• Monday, September 5th 2022 - 10:24 UTC

  Respiratory disease in Tucumán determined to be Legionella

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti confirmed that the mysterious respiratory disease in the province of Tucumán, which has caused so far 5 deaths, was bilateral pneumonia caused by the Legionella bacteria.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 18:52 UTC

  Bolsonaro guilty of crimes against humanity for COVID-19 measures

  

  The Rome-based Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) found Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of crimes against humanity and Human Rights violations for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 18:33 UTC

  New drastic lockdown ordered in a Chinese city

  

  Some 21 million people have been placed under sanitary confinement Thursday in the Chinese City of Chengdu as a result of a new outbreak of COVID-19 in a move to tackle “an extremely complex and serious pandemic situation,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 19:14 UTC

  Millions of Chinese citizens again under lockdown amid zero-COVID policies

  

  Chinese authorities have once again placed millions of people under lockdown following the resurgence of an outbreak of COVID-19 of the Omicron variant and as a consequence of the national government's zero-COVID policy.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:43 UTC

  Over 720,000 COVID-19 vaccines discarded in Paraguay

  

  Paraguayan health authorities have admitted that over 720,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been lost due to expiration or open vials, it was reported in Asunción.

• Saturday, August 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Moderna sues Pfizer/Biontech over Covid-19 vax patent

  

  US pharmaceutical company Moderna Friday sued Pfizer / BioNTech over patent ownership infringement regarding the COVID-19 RNA vaccine

• Wednesday, August 24th 2022 - 21:10 UTC

  Uruguay stops requesting Covid-19 affidavit at its borders

  

  Uruguayan authorities have announced they would no longer require affidavits from incoming travelers attesting to their health covid-19-wise, in addition to granting tax exemptions on hotel and restaurant bills to foreign visitors, effective as of next month.