Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Chilean copper industry halts expansion to slow the spread of coronavirus among miners

  

  Chile's Codelco has halted work on a multibillion-dollar project to extend the life of its El Teniente mine as the copper producer strives to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease through its workforce, the state-owned mining company said.

• Tuesday, July 7th 2020 - 09:22 UTC

  Study shows 5,2% of Spain's population has been exposed to the new coronavirus

  

  Results from the final stage of a nationwide antibody study show about 5.2% of Spain's population has been exposed to the new coronavirus, health officials said on Monday, confirming findings from earlier stages.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Six out of ten children in Argentina live in poverty, UN data

  

  The global pandemic has hammered Argentina's economy, which is now expected to shrink around 12% this year, driving millions into poverty and leaving almost six out of every 10 children and adolescents below the poverty line, United Nations data show.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:23 UTC

  Scientists insist in the airborne transmission of Covid-19, and call on WHO to revise recommendations

  

  The coronavirus is finding new victims worldwide, in bars and restaurants, offices, markets and casinos, giving rise to frightening clusters of infection that increasingly confirm what many scientists have been saying for months: The virus lingers in the air indoors, infecting those nearby.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:03 UTC

  Lockouts re-imposed in areas of Galicia and Catalonia

  

  The northwestern Spanish region of Galicia imposed restrictions on about 70,000 people on Sunday following a COVID-19 outbreak, a day after Catalonia also introduced a local lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:52 UTC

  “It's crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance, London police

  

  Britain's police said on Sunday that revelers who packed London's Soho district the night pubs finally reopened made it “crystal clear” that drunk people cannot socially distance.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazil reaches 1,5 million Covid-19 contagion cases and over 60,000 deaths

  

  Brazil is expected to pass 1.5 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Friday, as the virus continues to ravage Latin America's largest country even as cities reopen bars, restaurants, and gyms sparking fears infections will keep rising.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Argentine economy expected to contract 12% this year, according to central bank poll

  

  Argentina's economy is expected to contract by 12% in 2020, a monthly central bank poll of analysts showed on Friday, worse than the previous estimate of a 9.4% decline, as output is ravaged by measures to tame the coronavirus outbreak.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Outbreaks of coronavirus at Brazilian pork and chicken slaughter plants

  

  Mass testing revealed an outbreak of novel coronavirus infections at plants operated by JBS SA and BRF SA in Brazil's Center West, the labor prosecutor's office in Mato Grosso do Sul state said on Friday, citing company data.

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 07:05 UTC

  Angela Merkel wears a face mask in the Bundesrat

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel made her first public appearance wearing a mask on Friday after dismissing accusations of hypocrisy earlier this week for not wearing one.