Tag: COVID-19

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  South Korea “breaks” lockdown and goes to the polls for parliamentary election

  

  Temperature checks on voters, separate booths for those with fever, special polling stations for the quarantined: South Koreans headed to the polls on Wednesday with a big turnout expected despite the coronavirus threat.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Trump halts funding of WHO over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday halted funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, drawing condemnation from infectious disease experts as the global death toll continued to mount.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 19:31 UTC

  IMF: Uruguay's economy will fall 3% in 2020; Latin America's, 5.2%

  

  According to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Uruguayan economy will decrease by 3% this 2020. The “great closure” has been how the international body has defined, as the title of its World Economic Outlook, government measures against the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Face masks mandatory in Buenos Aires as of next Wednesday

  

  Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires authorities on Monday announced it was stepping up measures to curb the COVID-19 outbreak by making face masks mandatory on public transit.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Brazilian health minister urged government to speak with a unified voice against COVID-19

  

  Brazil's health minister urged the government to speak with a unified voice in its fight against the new coronavirus, calling out President Jair Bolsonaro for downplaying the threat ahead of what are likely to be the two toughest months for the outbreak.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  US controversy as to who decides reopening the economy and lifting ”stay at home”

  

  President Donald Trump said on Monday it was his decision when to reopen the U.S. economy, not that of state governors, but legal experts disagree and governors are going their own way.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  A Brazilian industry COVID-19 hasn't stopped: deforestation in the Amazon

  

  Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Infectology expert Fauci is more popular and trusted than Trump, and the president can't stand it

  

  President Donald Trump said on Monday that he liked leading health expert Anthony Fauci and did not intend to fire him after Fauci said in an interview that earlier mitigation efforts against the coronavirus outbreak could have saved more lives.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  “UK not past the virus peak”, so no lifting of lockdown anytime soon, Raab

  

  The British government warned on Monday it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Macron extends lockdown to curb coronavirus until May 11

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced he was extending a lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won.