Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:47 UTC

  Europe could be free-travel zone again by July

  

  European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson announced that EU free-travel zone could be up and running again before the end of June.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:43 UTC

  Leading medical publications involved in major scientific “blooper” regarding hydroxychloroquine

  

  An influential study that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients has been withdrawn a week after it led to major trials being halted, adding to the confusion about a malaria drug championed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:18 UTC

  With economic activity plunging in Chile, consumer prices fell 0.1% during May

  

  Chilean consumer prices fell 0.1% in May, the government’s statistics agency INE said on Friday, as costs of many goods and services stagnated amid the growing coronavirus outbreak in the country.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina extends quarantine to 28 June in metropolitan Buenos Aires

  

  Argentina decided to prolong the quarantine linked to the COVID-19 pandemic until 28 June in the areas most affected by the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Thursday. The president made the announcement next to Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodriguez Larreta and Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province, which concentrates 40% of the country's population, and most virus cases.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Covid-19 human toll: US unemployment expected to reach 20% in May

  

  The U.S. unemployment rate likely shot up to almost 20% in May, a new post World War Two record, with millions more losing their jobs, exposing the horrific human toll from the COVID-19 crisis.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  The flourishing business of coffin making in Peru… with Venezuelan labor

  

  As the coronavirus-hit economy of Peru stagnated over the past three months, Lima coffin-maker Genaro Cabrera has seen his sales quadruple. “I never imagined working to such an extreme,” Cabrera said at his factory in the rundown district of San Juan de Lurigancho.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:39 UTC

  US billionaires become significantly richer during the pandemic

  

  The combined wealth of America's billionaires, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, jumped more than 19% or by half a trillion since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Spain: major discrepancies between national and regional Covid-19 death tolls

  

  Spain's overall death toll from the coronavirus edged higher on Thursday, though discrepancies between regional and national data raised questions over the methodology used by the government to produce the tally.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  COVID-19 vaccine must be seen as “a global public good – a people’s vaccine”, UN Secretary-General Guterres

  

  ”We need global solidarity to ensure that every person, everywhere, has access”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message to the Global Vaccine Summit, convened to find and fund collective solutions for Covid-19-related vaccines and to strengthen routine immunization commitments and resources for other preventable diseases.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 18:45 UTC

  Brazil's second consecutive record number of Covid-19 daily deaths

  

  Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.