Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, May 23rd 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Peruvian city prays to the Virgin of Socorro, flown in a police helicopter, for the end of coronavirus

  

  Every five years, a statue of the Virgin of Socorro is paraded through the streets of Peru’s third-largest city, Trujillo. But this year, the coronavirus lockdown meant the city’s patron saint could not make her rounds as usual.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Falklands' next tourist season “very tough, very late, if there is one at all”

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Mark Pollard this week said that the coming tourist season is likely to be, “very tough, and a very late one if there is one at all.” However MLA Pollard emphasized that he was expressing his own opinion, and described any expectation that the cruise ship season will start as normal in October as fanciful.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Falklands' restriction measures will not be reviewed for another month, despite swabbing capacity

  

  The Falkland Islands' government this week confirmed that it will be a month before there is any review of current social distancing measures even if Covid-19 tests continue to return negative results.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  All Uruguayan students will be back in school by the end of June in a three stage calendar

  

  Uruguayan students will be returning to face-to-face classes from June following a three-stage calendar and with voluntary assistance, the country’s president, Luis Lacalle Pou, reported on Thursday.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:35 UTC

  Globally Covid-19 cases exceed 5 million and 330,000 deaths, WHO report

  

  Globally, confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday exceeded 5 million, while in the last 24 hours there was a world record of infections in one day, 106,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the database from Johns Hopkins University.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  Job losses in the US totaled 38,6 million since the lockdown; 2,43 million in the last week

  

  Job losses in the United States are slowing but totaled an unheard-of 38.6 million since the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns began, while officials debate what additional steps will be needed to rescue the beleaguered economy.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:21 UTC

  US flags at half-staff for three days in honor of Americans Covid-19 100,000 deaths

  

  President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered US flags to be lowered to half-staff for three days in honor of Americans who have died from COVID-19. The announcement came as the US COVID-19 death toll approaches the 100,000 marks, and follows calls by Democrats to lower the flag when it reaches that grim milestone.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Brazil's Fiat-Chrysler automaker back to work, but under strict measures

  

  Before going to work these days, employees at the Brazilian unit of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have to get a health check using a mobile app every morning.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  Working mothers bear the brunt of pandemic: spend an average 65 hours a week

  Working mothers in Europe and the United States are taking on most of the extra housework and childcare created by lockdown, and many are struggling to cope, a survey showed on Thursday.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 10:06 UTC

  Chile passed the 50,000 mark for coronavirus infections

  

  Chile passed the 50,000 mark for coronavirus-related cases on Wednesday, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university’s running tally counted a total of 53,617 infections with 544 fatalities and 22,504 recoveries.