Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 10:26 UTC

  Falklands government on track to deliver a five year £130m capital program

  

  The Falkland Islands Government confirmed its commitment to delivering its capital program, despite some disruption caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The approved total capital program is valued at £130m over five years and there is significant work on-going to deliver critical infrastructure projects.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 10:26 UTC

  Controversy in Brazil over guidelines for workers at meatpackers, where there has been a spike of Covid-19 cases

  

  Brazilian government on Friday published new guidelines for meatpackers after a spike of COVID-19 cases at food plants, including keeping workers at least one meter apart, but labor prosecutors criticized the steps as inadequate.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 10:05 UTC

  Brazil breaks the 50,000 deaths toll from coronavirus outbreak

  

  Brazil on Sunday said it had registered more than 50,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak as well as about one million infections, as the second worst-affected country in the world struggles to control the disease.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Chile doubles coronavirus death toll to over 7,000 with new tallying method

  

  Chile nearly doubled its reported coronavirus death toll Saturday to more than 7,000 under a new tallying method that includes probable fatalities from COVID-19. The toll thus increased by 3,069, Rafael Araos of the health ministry said as he explained the new government counting methodology.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Spain reopens borders on Sunday hoping to re-launch the tourism season

  

  Spain reopened its borders on Sunday, a significant stage in Europe's gradual reopening after its battle against the coronavirus, as infections in Latin America surged past two million.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  London City Airport receives first commercial flight in three months

  

  London City Airport received its first commercial flight in nearly three months on Sunday as Britain moved another step closer to fully emerging from its coronavirus lockdown on Jul 4.

• Sunday, June 21st 2020 - 07:02 UTC

  Waste water analysis in Europe advance the Covid 19 pandemic two/three months before fist reported cases

  

  The coronavirus was already present in two large cities in northern Italy in December, over two months before the first case was detected, a national health institute study of waste water has found.

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 11:05 UTC

  Europe working with US on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization

  

  European governments are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization, a top health official for a European country said, signalling that Europe shares some of the concerns that led Washington to say it would quit.

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 10:20 UTC

  Record breaking Brazil: over a million Covid-19 cases and 50,000 deaths

  

  Brazil on Friday passed a total of more than 1 million COVID-19 cases, and nearly 50,000 deaths, according to Health Ministry data, in a new nadir for the world's second worst-hit country.

• Saturday, June 20th 2020 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands: Stanley/MPC travel restrictions lifted; confinement measures relaxed

  

  The Falklands Government, FIG, and the British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, given the current pandemic situation in the Islands, announced on Friday the lifting of travel restrictions between Stanley and Mount Pleasant Complex.