Tag: COVID-19

• 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.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Brazil expects a slowdown of China trade, but will still enjoy a healthy surplus

  

  Brazil expects a slower growth of exports this year as China implements strict lockdown measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. Nevertheless, China will help to boost Brazil's trade surplus points out Foreign Trade Indicator (Icomex) data, released by Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), the country's leading think tank..

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  COVID-19 continues to spread in Argentina, Chile

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry Sunday reported 43,487 new cases of COVID-19 in the last seven days, a 27.94% increase over the previous report, in addition to 49 deaths due to the pandemic in the same period. The number of weekly cases has grown by more than 284% in one month.

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  WHO greenlights CanSino single-dose Covid-19 vax for emergency use

  

  The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday granted an emergency approval to the CONVIDECIA vaccine against COVID-19 developed by China's CanSino Biologics.

• Wednesday, May 18th 2022 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentina's society outraged as President “buys his way out of lockdown”

  

  Argentina's society was outraged Tuesday after it was announced that President Alberto Fernández and First Lady Fabiola Yáñez were let off the hook for violating the lockdown he had himself decreed during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Vizzotti says Argentina entering fourth wave of COVID-19

  

  Argentina's Health Minister Carla Vizzotti Monday confirmed the country was going through its fourth wave of COVID-19. The official also pointed out that “we are in a different situation” now.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentine Pope canonizes first Uruguayan Saint

  

  Pope Francis Sunday raised the first Uruguayan national to sainthood from St. Peter's Square when he canonized Mother Francisca Rubatto, an Italian-Uruguayan nun who lived between 1844 and 1904.

• Friday, May 13th 2022 - 19:51 UTC

  Uruguay to start 4th round of covid-19 vaccination next week

  

  Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP) Friday announced the approval of a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all people between 18 and 49 years of age.