Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina to announce quarantine extension to 17 July in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández together with Buenos Aires province governor Axel Kicillof and the head of the Buenos Aires City government, Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, agreed on Thursday to further implement mobility restrictions, including “a strong decline in vehicle circulation” in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA).

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:14 UTC

  Brazil fears the Covid-19 “boomerang effect” from smaller towns to major cities

  

  The novel coronavirus, now spreading through the smaller towns of Brazil's interior, risks returning to major cities in a so-called “boomerang effect,” as a lack of specialized medical treatment forces patients into larger urban centers.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:11 UTC

  Latam rescheduling and scaling back domestic and international flights

  

  South American carrier LATAM has suspended ticket sales on 23 routes across its network, including several domestic routes within Chile and international routes from Brazil, Chile and Peru. At the same time, the Santiago-headquartered carrier has made the bold move to suspend international destinations from five Argentinean destinations to the carrier’s hubs in Santiago, Lima and Sao Paulo until 2021.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Bolsonaro appeals court ruling requiring him to wear a face mask

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appealed a court ruling on Friday that requires him to wear a face mask in public during the coronavirus pandemic, calling it “unnecessary.” The attorney-general's office, which represents the government in legal matters, said the ruling was redundant since face masks are already mandatory in Brasilia.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  Newborn triplets in Mexico infected with coronavirus, but parents did not test positive for the virus

  

  Mexican health authorities are trying to understand how a set of newborn triplets became infected with the novel coronavirus even though neither one of their parents tested positive for the virus. Health authorities called the case “unheard of.”

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  US believes more than 20 million Americans could have contracted Covid-19

  

  United States government experts believe more than 20 million Americans could have contracted the coronavirus, 10 times more than official counts, indicating many people without symptoms have or have had the disease, senior administration officials said.

• Saturday, June 27th 2020 - 07:11 UTC

  Spanish virologists find trace of coronavirus in Barcelona March 2019 waste water sample

  

  Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona wastewater collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:15 UTC

  Chile totaled 259,604 Covid-19 positive cases

  

  In the last 24 hours, Chile registered 4,648 new coronavirus cases, totaling 259,064 since the pandemic was officially recognized in the country, 17 March, according to the daily report by the Public Health minister Enrique Paris.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:08 UTC

  Bournemouth authorities 'appalled' after thousands flocked to the beach

  

  An English seaside resort declared a major incident Thursday after thousands of people flocked to the beach on the hottest day of the year so far, despite the threat of coronavirus.

• Friday, June 26th 2020 - 10:06 UTC

  Brazil confirms budget primary deficit at 11% of GDP; economy set to shrink 7%

  

  Brazil’s economic growth and fiscal outlook this year are shaping up to be worse than official government forecasts, making a return to austerity and reforms next year all the more pressing, Treasury Secretary Mansueto Almeida said