Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Facebook removes events promoting protests against stay-at-home measures

  

  Facebook Inc said on Monday that it has removed events in Nebraska, New Jersey and California promoting protests against stay-at-home measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the new coronavirus.

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Spain authorizes Italian 1,800 world tour cruise passengers to disembark in Barcelona

  

  Hundreds of passengers from an Italian cruise ship disembarked in Barcelona on Monday after five weeks without setting foot on land because of coronavirus restrictions. Since the ship left the northern Italian city of Venice on Jan 5 for a round-the-world tour, no coronavirus case has been found onboard.

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Ecuador receives temporary reprieve to defer interest payments

  

  Ecuador received a temporary reprieve over the weekend when the government announced that a sufficient number of investors had agreed to a consent solicitation to defer interest payments.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro holds a “patriots” meeting and challenges lockdown measures

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday again attended a public rally and attacked lockdown measures meant to fight the coronavirus, as supporters of the right-wing leader joined political motorcades around the country.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentine fisheries industry estimates exports to drop 30% this year because of COVID-19

  

  Hard times ahead for fisheries exports. According to a paper circulated among members of Argentina's different fish industry chambers foreign market prospects are not encouraging since the main markets, Spain, Italy, China and the United States, are suffering the greatest impact from the coronavirus pandemic.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Chile has more than 10.000 virus tested positive cases; Magallanes Region, 553

  

  Chile reported on Sunday that there were more than 10,000 people in the country with the coronavirus, the third-highest tally in Latin America, as the disease ravages the economy of the world's top copper producer.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Boris Johnson “on top of things”, says government; but where is he? asks the media

  

  The British government insisted on Sunday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was “on top of things” as he recovers from the coronavirus facing criticism of his early handling of the crisis.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  Chile: controversy over alleged donation of Chinese ventilators to combat COVID-19

  

  Chile is expecting China to donate ventilators to help cope with the coronavirus outbreak, a government official said on Sunday, contradicting earlier statements by China's ambassador to Chile that he was unaware of such a shipment.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  US oil falls to below US$ 15 a barrel and Brent dropped to US$ 27

  

  US crude fell about 20% to below US$15 a barrel on Monday, its lowest level in about two decades, as a coronavirus-triggered collapse in demand eclipsed a deal to cut output. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, fell 18.7% to US$14.84 a barrel. Brent crude, the international benchmark, was off 1.5% at US$27.64 a barrel.

• Monday, April 20th 2020 - 07:37 UTC

  Brazilian central bank estimates economy will begin to recover in the fourth quarter

  

  Brazil's central bank president Roberto Campos Neto said this weekend that Latin America's largest economy will begin to recover from the coronavirus crisis in the fourth quarter, according to an interview in local media.