Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  Petrobras expects increased production from the pre-salt offshore basin

  

  By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com – Because of the increased production at the prolific pre-salt offshore basin, Petrobras expects its oil and gas production this year to exceed earlier guidance, Brazil’s state oil firm said when it reported its production figures for Q3.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Chilean president pledges “sufficient and timely” access to Covid vaccines

  

  Chilean President Sebastian Piñera said the country’s health regulators had given the go-ahead to a clinical trial of the AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 vaccine. Piñera said the AstraZeneca trial would follow one by America’s Johnson & Johnson that is already underway and another by China’s Sinovac, whose first vaccine doses arrived in Chile last week.

• Monday, November 9th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Taiwan “locked out” of WHO Covid-19 meeting on objections from Beijing

  

  Taiwan is yet to receive an invite to a key World Health Organization (WHO) meeting this week expected to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic due to “obstruction” from China, the island's foreign ministry said, expressing its displeasure.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Massive flags protest demonstration across Argentina programmed for Sunday

  

  A massive Argentine flags' protest is scheduled for this Sunday with the support of different sectors of urban communities and farmers throughout the country, similar to the several that have been successfully held so far this year in support of the defense of Liberty, the Republic and Justice. The last one was on 12 October.

• Sunday, November 8th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Argentina will receive some 22 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines

  

  Argentina has struck a deal with drug maker AstraZeneca Plc to receive around 22 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine being developed with the University of Oxford, with the aim to start deliveries in the first half of next year.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina wants EU to eliminate zero tariff access for Falklands' exports

  

  Argentina held a meeting with the European Union ambassador and 21 of 27 EU members' representatives in Buenos Aires and formally called for an end of the support for UK Falklands' sovereignty recognition in the ongoing Brexit negotiations between Brussels and London.

• Saturday, November 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Pfizer vaccines for Argentina should be arriving in December, president Fernandez

  

  Argentina President Alberto Fernandez said on Friday his country could receive 750,000 doses of an eventual coronavirus vaccine from U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc in December, a glimmer of hope as cases in the South American nation show signs of receding following months of quarantine.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  RRS James Clark Ross left Harwich for summer mission in Antarctica

  

  The RRS James Clark Ross left the Port of Harwich on Thursday beginning its five-and-a-half-month mission to deliver scientific and operational staff to Antarctica and to resupply the UK stations in Antarctica for another year.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  E-commerce firm Mercado Libre benefits from a surge of online shopping in Latam

  

  Mercado Libre Inc, Latin America's top e-commerce firm, reported better-than-expected third-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, helped by a surge in online shopping and digital payment transactions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Friday, November 6th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Covid-19 overshadowing emergency action to avert measles and polio epidemics, WHO and UNICEF

  

  UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an urgent call to action to avert major measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 continues to disrupt immunization services worldwide, leaving millions of vulnerable children at heightened risk of preventable childhood diseases.