Tag: COVID-19

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Falklands updates its Travel Advisory concerning COVID-19

  

  The Government of the Falklands updated its advice on travelling to the Islands, in response to a further change in the global COVID-19 situation. The Italian Government this week announced emergency measures across the entire country in response to the virus.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  UK junior health minister tests positive for Covid 19, and is self isolated at home

  

  British Member of Parliament (MP) Nadine Dorries, a junior health minister, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, she said in a statement on Tuesday. “I can confirm I have tested positive for coronavirus ... and have been self-isolating at home,” said the Conservative MP.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Trump's chief of staff self quarantined for contacting a person coronavirus positive

  

  Incoming White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has self-quarantined after he may have come into contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesperson said. Meadows is not exhibiting symptoms and a precautionary test came back negative, the spokesperson said on Twitter.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Black Monday cocktail: oil price war and coronavirus trigger market panic

  

  World oil prices crashed on Monday, fuelling a vicious selloff on stock markets that were already buckling from the spreading coronavirus outbreak. Stocks tanked as the global oil market nosedived 30% at one stage after top exporter Saudi Arabia slashed the prices it charges customers following a bust-up with Russia over crude production cuts.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Coronavirus cases in Argentina climbs to 17; minister admits the virus arrived faster than expected

  

  Argentina's health ministry announced on Monday five new confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking the total number to 17. All of them were described as imported cases since they involved people who arrived from overseas. They include a patient in Buenos Aires City, two from Chaco province, one from San Luis and the fifth in Patagonia Rio Negro province.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 07:36 UTC

  Italy in self-imposed quarantine: highest coronavirus death toll in the world after China

  

  All of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets, and rioting prisoners made clear on Monday how the global coronavirus epidemic was extending its reach into all aspects of social and economic life.

• Monday, March 9th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  First Covid-19 death in Latin America; twelve positive cases in Argentina

  

  A 64-year-old man died in Argentina as a result of the Covid-19, the first such death in Latin America, health authorities announced Saturday. The Ministry of Health said the patient lived in Buenos Aires and had been confirmed with COVID-19 after coming down with a cough, fever and sore throat following a recent trip to Europe.

• Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:58 UTC

  Argentina reports eight confirmed cases of Covid-19

  

  The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Argentina has risen from two to eight within the past 24 hours, the national Health Ministry said.

• Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  Covid-19: Advice on Travelling to the Falkland Islands; list of banned countries

  

  The government of the Falklands is updating its advice on travelling to the Islands, in response to the global COVID-19 situation. All passengers arriving in the Falkland Islands by air are routinely required, by law, to complete a declaration about countries they have come from or visited recently.

• Saturday, March 7th 2020 - 06:29 UTC

  Satellite images reveal the “vacuum” impact of the Covid-19 epidemic

  

  Empty public squares, a ghostly train station, and deserted holy sites - a series of striking satellite images have revealed the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on some of the world's busiest spaces.