Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Major airlines call on US and UK to launch pax testing trial for London/New York flights

  

  Major airlines want the US and British governments to launch a passenger testing trial for the coronavirus for flights between London and New York to pave the way for a resumption of more international travel.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  UNICEF says “unprecedented quantities” of vaccines can be produced to tackle Covid-19

  

  Unprecedented quantities of vaccines could be produced by 28 manufacturers in 10 countries over the next two years to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as it announced it would help lead efforts to procure and distribute them.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates that Covid-19 vaccines will not be obligatory

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory when they become available.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 19:02 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government continue to uphold humanitarian principles

  

  Since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first began DNA work in 2017 to identify unknown Argentine soldiers buried in the islands, the Falkland Islands Government has continued to uphold both its humanitarian principles and commitment to the Geneva Convention.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro's popularity soars as he extends payments for low income Brazilians until 2021

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro extended until the end of the year payments for low-income Brazilians hit by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a program that has boosted his popularity but created tension with his finance team.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Two UK caught Covid-19 cases reported in Falklands through antibody testing; only positive results in months

  

  Following fifty samples undertaken by the Falkland Islands hospital, KEMH, during the third round of SARS-COV-2 antibody testing, two positive results turned out, and were from people who would have caught the virus while in the United Kingdom, reported the Islands' Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rebecca Edwards.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Brazil with record trade surplus in August, despite an overall fall in global transactions

  

  Brazil obtained a record trade surplus of US$ 6,6 billion during the month of August, the highest for the month since 1989. However overall dropped with exports sliding 5.5% to US$ 17,741bn and imports, 25,1%, to US$ 11,133bn. In eight months the trade surplus reached US$ 36,594bn, the third-best historically in the last forty years.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 07:06 UTC

  Scotland’s new independence referendum draft “surprises” Johnson administration

  

  A British minister said she was surprised by plans for another Scottish independence referendum given the budget deficit in the country and the economic challenges facing the whole of the United Kingdom after the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 06:56 UTC

  Skip kissing and wear a mask when having sex, Canada's chief medical officer

  

  Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazilian economy is back to 2009 size, following a 11,4% contraction in the second quarter

  

  Brazil’s economy shrank in the second quarter by the most on record as anti-coronavirus lockdown measures slammed activity in almost every sector, dragging Latin America’s largest economy back to the size it was in 2009.