Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 21:20 UTC

  COVID-19 cases on the rise in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities have reported over the weekend a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide last week (52,745 ), a 26% increase over the previous week.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:42 UTC

  New Zealand fully reopens borders to build back from COVID isolation

  

  The Government of New Zealand has fully reopened its borders effective August 1 to foreign visitors, thus ending the sanitary restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Pacific country had one of the toughest travel regimes imposed on health grounds globally. Before Covid-19, tourism accounted for 5.5% of New Zealand's GDP.

• Monday, August 1st 2022 - 07:00 UTC

  Biden tests positive again for COVID-19 after just a few days

  

  US President Joseph Biden has tested positive again for COVID-19, the White House reported. According to his head physician, he “continues to feel well” and is asymptomatic but will nonetheless work from isolation.

• Friday, July 29th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine health authorities devise strategies against monkeypox

  

  Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti convened a meeting with “experts” to generate “strategies to strengthen epidemiological surveillance, work together with the jurisdictions to decentralize diagnosis, train health teams and generate information actions for society.”

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 22:00 UTC

  China: Full lockdown reinstated in Wuhan area due to COVID-19

  

  In line with their Zero-COVID policy, Chinese authorities have placed an entire district on the outskirts of Wuhan under strict lockdown for the first time since 2020, it was reported.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 20:36 UTC

  Uruguay back to vaccinating children against COVID-19

  

  Uruguay Thursday resumed vaccinating children aged 5 to 13 against COVID-19 after an Appellate Court reversed earlier this week Judge Alejandro Recarey's ruling halting the therapeutic procedure.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 21:27 UTC

  Biden back to work after testing negative for COVID-19

  

  US President Joseph Biden has tested negative twice for COVID-19 and was therefore spared from further isolation, White House sources announced Wednesday.

• Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Court rules Uruguay may resume vaccination of children against COVID-19

  

  A Montevideo Court of Appeals Tuesday reversed a previous decision by a lower court halting vaccination of children aged between 5 and 13 years against COVID-19, Health Minister Daniel Salinas announced. The administration of these drugs will be resumed Thursday without prior appointments needed.

• Tuesday, July 26th 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Argentine gov't open to compensating those damaged by COVID-19 vaccines

  

  People who have suffered an “adverse event” from COVID-19 vaccines may seek compensation from the Argentine Government as per the “Covid-19 Reparation Fund,” according to Health Ministry Resolution 7/2022 published Monday in the Official Gazette.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 23:24 UTC

  US, UK repeal tariffs on Brazilian steel products

  

  Brazil's Economy Ministry Monday confirmed that the United Kingdom had decided to no longer apply protective tax measures on the import of steel plates and cold-rolled steel products.