Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 20:52 UTC

  China open to the identification of the source of coronavirus, but “free of political interference”

  

  China is “open” to international cooperation to identify the source of the novel coronavirus but any investigation must be “free of political interference”, China's foreign minister said on Sunday. Wang Yi blasted what he called efforts by US politicians to “fabricate rumors” about the pathogen's origins and “stigmatize China”.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina extends mandatory lockdown in metropolitan Buenos Aires until 7 June

  

  Argentina extended until June 7 a mandatory lockdown in metropolitan Buenos Aires on Saturday and tightened some movement restrictions, after a steady increase in the city's confirmed coronavirus cases in recent days.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  Non US passenger traveling from Brazil banned from entering United States

  

  The White House on Sunday (May 24) said it was prohibiting most non-US citizens from traveling to the United States if they had been in Brazil in the last two weeks, two days after the South American nation became the world No. 2 hot spot for coronavirus cases.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Piñera admits Chile's health system in close to the very limit

  

  Chile's healthcare system is under strain and “very close to the limit,” President Sebastian Piñera admitted on Sunday, as the number of confirmed novel coronavirus infections approaches 70,000 after a rapid increase in recent days.

• Monday, May 25th 2020 - 07:46 UTC

  Virology institute in Wuhan admits having live strains of bat coronavirus but “do not match with the current outbreaks”

  

  The Chinese virology institute in the city where COVID-19 first emerged has three live strains of bat coronavirus on-site, but none match the new contagion wreaking chaos across the world, its director has said.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 10:50 UTC

  Argentina asks Ireland's support to exclude the Falklands from any post Brexit EU-UK accord

  

  The Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá held a round of talks with his counterparts from Australia, Ireland and Armenia to address issues of special significance for an Argentine foreign policy such as the current Coronavirus pandemic, and its impact on the global economy, and the European Union position regarding the Falkland Islands in a post Brexit scenario.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  South America becomes a new epicenter of Covid-19 pandemic

  

  South America has become “a new epicenter” of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, following a surge in the number of Covid-19 infections.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Brazil second only to US as coronavirus hotspot with 330,890 Covid-19 cases confirmed

  

  Brazil became the world No 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases on Friday, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry said.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Overwhelmed by Covid-19, Peru extends nationwide lockdown until end of June

  

  Peru on Friday extended its state of emergency and a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic until the end of June, marking one of the longest periods of mandatory isolation in the world.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Bolsonaro increasingly cornered by his eccentric attitude and incompetence

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro's government warned on Friday that Brazil's “national security” would be at risk if investigators granted a request to seize the far-right leader's cell phone in an obstruction of justice investigation.