Tag: COVID-19

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Brazil restricts the entrance of foreigners for 30 days fearing the second wave of Covid-19 cases

  

  Brazil's government will restrict the entrance of foreigners to the country for 30 days due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, it said in a decree late on Tuesday in its official gazette.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  New York imposes 14-day quarantine on travelers arriving from eight US states

  

  People arriving in New York from an additional eight states must quarantine themselves for 14 days amid the coronavirus pandemic, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ordered this week.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 10:14 UTC

  Covid-19 collapse in working hours; ILO says situation of the Americas is particularly dire

  

  The coronavirus crisis has taken a much heavier toll on jobs than previously feared, the UN said Tuesday, warning that the situation in the Americas was particularly dire. In a fresh study, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated that by the mid-year point, global working hours were down 14% compared to last December - equivalent to some 400 million full-time jobs.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Kiwi longliners meet at Falklands; San Aotea on Thursday leaves for New Zealand

  

  A 25-day slog across the frigid Southern Ocean is finally over for a New Zealand Sanford fishing vessel on a mercy mission to help the crew of a fellow fishing boat who spent months at sea in rough waters near Cape Horn due to the Covid-19 lockdown.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  The most powerful EU member takes the rotating presidency of the block

  

  The European Union’s most powerful member, Germany, takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency as of Wednesday amid a raft of challenges — from COVID-19 and the economic devastation it has wrought, to Brexit, trade with China and tensions with the United States.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  UK economy shrinks the most since 1979, as households slashed spending

  

  Britain’s economy shrank by the most since 1979 in early 2020 as households slashed their spending, according to official data that included the first few days of the coronavirus lockdown.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:07 UTC

  WTO confident of securing an agreement on cutting fisheries subsidies this year

  

  The World Trade Organization (WTO) aims to secure an agreement on cutting fisheries subsidies this year, the chair of the talks, and a WTO official said on Tuesday, despite the cancellation of a major meeting due to COVID-19.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 18:04 UTC

  Uruguay in the list of 14 countries to which the Europe Union opens its borders

  

  The European Union agreed on Tuesday to reopen its borders to 14 countries excluding the virus-stricken US, as the pandemic accelerated globally with more than 505,000 deaths worldwide. Of Latin America the only country included in the list is Uruguay.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:03 UTC

  WHO calls on Brazil to do more and integrate efforts at different levels of government

  

  Brazil still faces a “big challenge” to curb the coronavirus pandemic and should do more to integrate its efforts at different levels of government, a top World Health Organization official said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Johnson: Coronavirus, a disaster for the UK; Labour leader Starmer: PM has been asleep on the wheel

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the coronavirus crisis had been a disaster for the United Kingdom and while the government would look at what went wrong, it was not the right time to have an inquiry into missteps.