Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazil launches multi-vaccination campaign

  

  In a move to make up for time lost during COVID-19 lockdowns, Brazilian health authorities Sunday launched a multi-vaccination campaign focused on polio and other diseases targetting children and adolescents who have failed to take the immunizers.

• Friday, August 5th 2022 - 08:36 UTC

  COVID-19 infections on the rise in Chile

  

  Some schools in Antofagasta were reported to have suspended on-site classes as the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Many Mexicans showed persistent sequelae from COVID-19

  

  A survey from Mexico's Health Ministry released this week has shown that over one-third of patients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 still have recurrent problems known as “persistent sequelae” despite having overcome the disease.

• 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.