Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  WHO scientists say key data missing to understand how the pandemic started

  

  World Health Organization (WHO) specialists said Thursday that they still lacked key data in order to reach a conclusion on how the COVID-19 pandemic started and eventually spread worldwide.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 08:54 UTC

  Face masks make compulsory return to some Uruguayan settings

  

  Effective Thursday, Uruguay's health authorities have reinstated the mandatory wear of face coverings in certain indoor settings, in light of an increasing number of cases of COVID-19, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 09:26 UTC

  Brazil: Mr. and Mrs. Lula test positive for COVID-19

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his wife Janja tested positive Sunday for COVID-19, due to which all campaign engagements have been suspended, the candidate's press office announced.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  4th dose of covid-19 vax will be the last until next year, Buenos Aires Minister forecasts

  

  Buenos Aires City Health Minister Fernán Quirós said he believed it was “very likely” that the fourth dose of covid-19 vaccine would be the last this year and that the next immunization campaign will be ahead of the 2023 fall.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 06:35 UTC

  Sao Paulo authorities recommend wearing facemasks, as C-19 cases surge

  

  Sao Paulo City health authorities have advised the citizenry Wednesday to go back to wearing facemasks in indoor settings due to the increase of COVID-19 cases recorded in recent weeks. The measure will only be mandatory “in health facilities and in public transport such as buses, trains, and subways.”

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  China slowly lifting some COVID-19 restrictions

  

  As Chinese authorities are beginning to announce a gradual easing of the harsh measures imposed as per the country's zero-COVID policy, one episode in Beijing has resulted in additional restrictions, it was reported.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Falklands' Government publishes Budget for 2022/23: “stability and continuity”

  

  Stability and continuity are at the heart of the Falkland Islands Government Budget for 2022/23. The Budget recognizes these two themes are essential in the time of continued uncertainty stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic and the work on global recovery.

• Friday, May 27th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Lacalle Pou said Uruguay not going back to sanitary restrictions

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday said going back to sanitary restrictions over an increase in cases of COVID-19 was not on the table.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:58 UTC

  Pandemic shed light on gap between rich and poor, Alberto Fernández says

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday said this region had tasted first-hand what it means to be less developed than other parts of the world as he opened the III Regional Meeting of Ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Foreign Ministry headquarters in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 08:20 UTC

  Chinese economy stalling: combating Covid-19 and keeping jobs more significant than GDP growth criteria

  

  The Chinese economy is not working as smoothly as expected and is facing many challenges, admitted Premier Li Keqiang during a major conference on Wednesday.