Tag: COVID-19

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 07:41 UTC

  Falklands to ease restrictions on businesses currently closed due to Covid-19

  

  The Falkland Islands Executive Council met on Wednesday and considered the matter of easing restrictions on those businesses currently being advised to stay closed due to Covid-19. Announcements on the issues will follow this week.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 07:26 UTC

  Falklands' exercise to test a quick and effective response to a Covid-19 outbreak

  

  Falkland Islands Chief Medical Officer, Rebecca Edwards has said that with testing able to the done in the Islands, it is likely cases will be detected earlier and responded to faster. The KEMH in Stanley can already handle up to seven critically ill patients .

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 12:24 UTC

  UN human rights top official criticizes US “police violence” and historic inequalities

  

  Protests in cities across the United States triggered by the killing of George Floyd underscore “police violence” against people of color, and historic inequalities in access to health, education, and jobs, the top United Nations human rights official said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 11:52 UTC

  Workers at the largest open cast iron ore mine in the world threatened by Covid-19 outbreak

  

  The Brazilian municipality of Parauapebas, in the state of Pará, which houses part of the Serra dos Carajás, where the largest open-cast iron ore mine in the world is located, will carry out mass testing for Covid-19, reaching about half the population.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths; in Sao Paulo City partial lifting of the lockdown delayed

  

  Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  EU starts overhaul of drug manufacturing emphasizing in production and access to medicines

  

  The European Commission on Tuesday started a process that could lead to reforms of drug manufacturing to limit shortages of vaccines and antibiotics and make medicines more easily available.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Virus death toll in UK reaches 48,000, according to National Statistics Office

  

  The number of suspected and confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Britain has risen to 48,000, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures tallied all fatalities in which COVID-19 was suspected or mentioned on death certificates up to May 22.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  WHO experts deny Covid-19 was losing potency, as asserted by Italian epidemiologist

  

  Two World Health Organization experts and a range of other scientists said on Monday there was no evidence to support an assertion by a high profile Italian doctor that the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been losing potency.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  IATA announces new health recommendations for air travel

  

  Mask wearing, temperature controls, disinfection of aircraft - the International Civil Aviation Organization on Monday published a series of health recommendations for a pandemic-hit airline industry as it re-launches air travel.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Mexican workers return to work at the automotive factories

  

  Tens of thousands of workers lined up before dawn to return to work at automotive factories along Mexico's northern border on Monday, the first day that industries joined the country's list of essential activities beginning to reopen.