Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazilian and Argentine beef exports to China suspended after Covid-19 in packaging

  

  Two beef producers from Brazil and one from Argentina have had their exports to China suspended for one week after packaging of their products tested positive for traces of COVID-19, customs said. China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) made the announcement.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Mexican median age of Covid-19 deaths is 55, compared to 75 in other countries

  

  Mexico’s coronavirus spokesman said on Thursday the country’s median age of death from COVID-19 was a shockingly young 55, as compared to an average of 75 in many European countries.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Brazil confident of its chicken and pork production in 2021, despite grain costs

  

  Brazil's meat producers increased output for world markets this year and will again boost production next year, even though they face continued challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's meat lobby ABPA said.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  Brazil will begin “quite likely” Covid-19 vaccinations in January or February

  

  Brazil will “quite likely” begin vaccinations to stem the coronavirus pandemic in January or February, Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello said on Wednesday, outlining what would be the most aggressive vaccination timeline proposed by a federal health official in Brazil to date.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:27 UTC

  Falklands Covid-19 swabbing reached 4,746, according to latest data

  

  The Falkland Islands on Wednesday reported an update on Covid 19 swabbing which have reached 4,746, and no positive cases throughout the Islands. Because of the national Bank Holiday on Tuesday 8 December, Falklands' weekly Covid-19 swabbing update was published Wednesday, and update results are as follows.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Cyber-attack on EU medicines' regulator accesses crucial Pfizer vaccines info

  

  US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to the development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator. The European Medicines Agency, EMA, which assesses medicines and vaccines for the EU said hours earlier it had been targeted in a cyber attack.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  UN chief Guterres calls Covid-19 vaccines be treated as “a global public good”; fears poor countries will be sided

  

  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed,” leaving poor people around the globe watching preparations for inoculations against the coronavirus in some rich nations and wondering if and when they will be vaccinated.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Brazil reported 6,728,452 Covid-19 positive cases and 178,995 deaths

  

  Brazil reported 53,453 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the highest daily rate since mid-August, and 836 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Amnesty International: Right to life, public health demand extraordinary cooperation

  

  Governments should stop blocking a temporary waiver of some global intellectual property rules that will help boost global access to COVID-19 vaccines, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday ahead of a key World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Geneva on December 10, 2020.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 09:09 UTC

  Argentina Covid-19 cases topped 40,000 deaths on Tuesday

  

  The death toll from the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Argentina has topped 40,000, the country's Health Ministry said in a statement on Monday.