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Montevideo, April 19th 2025 - 10:52 UTC

Tag: COVID-19

  • Wednesday, February 9th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Saskatchewan to lift all Covid-19 restrictions following protests

    “This policy has run its course,” Premier Scott Moe told a news conference

    The Canadian province of Saskatchewan will lift as of midnight next Sunday all originally imposed as a responde to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced Tuesday. The new measures are a consequence of protests demanding a new approach at the disease, which is currently less severe as opposed to the economic consequences stemming from lockdowns and other limitations imposed on people.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

    Chile starts applying 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine

    Piñera took his shot while on vacation little over one month from going into retirement

    Chile Monday began applying the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to its population after Jan. 10 additional boosters were injected to people with comorbidities, health care staff and those over 55 years of age as infections due to the Omicron variant was on the rise.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Commonwealth and WHO agree to work on universal health care and resilient health systems

    The ceremony was held at the WHO Headquarters in Geneva by the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland QC, and the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros.

    The Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing to strengthening their collaboration on a broad range of public health issues of particular concern to Commonwealth member states and governments, such as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine equity, advancing universal health coverage, and building resilient health systems.

  • Tuesday, February 8th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

    Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant

    COVID-19 vaccines are as effective for BA.2 as they are for the original Omicron variant, experts said

    Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa Catarina.

  • Monday, February 7th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

    COVID-19 not the only infectious threat in Argentina

    Cyanobacteria can cause gastrointestinal, respiratory, neurological, skin, ear, and eye infections.

    Argentine vacationers can catch diseases other than COVID-19, which can even bring on worse symptoms, it was reported after the Health Ministry announced it had detected cyanobacteria in AMBA (City of Buenos Aires and territories around it) and in the provinces of Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santa Fe

  • Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 15:45 UTC

    Omicron subvariant found in 57 countries, WHO says

    More cases worldwide bring on more deaths, but Omicron is still less severe than previous forms of COVID-19

    The World Health Organization has released a report this week saying a new sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant has already been detected in 57 countries. According to some researchers, the new version is more contagious than the original Omicron.

  • Thursday, February 3rd 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    US Army instructed to discharge unvaccinated soldiers

    Unvaccinated troops pose a risk to their units, Wormuth explained

    The Army of the United States Wednesday announced it would start discharging soldiers who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. As of January 26, 96% of the military were fully vaccinated, while 3,350 had refused to take any injection.

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 21:55 UTC

    First case of new sublineage of omicron detected in Argentina

    The 62-year-old man had returned from Uruguay before the new sublineage was ever mentioned among scientists

    Argentine health authorities Tuesday confirmed the first case of COVID-19 caused by the sublineage BA.2 of the coronavirus omicron variant., which is said to be two to three times more contagious than the original omicron.

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 21:43 UTC

    Pfizer ready to deliver vaccine for kids under 5 before February's end, if okayed

    Almost 20 million children would be able to receive the shots, it was reported

    Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced it planned to submit a COVID-19 vaccine for children under the age of 5 to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United for emergency authorization. If approved, it would be the first such drug available in the United States for that age group.

  • Tuesday, February 1st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Britain helping the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo with a Covid-19 genome-sequencing project

    The data and analysis generated will provide public health staff a set of tools to assess the political answers to the pandemic

    The British government and the Pasteur Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay, have announced they will be working jointly in an agreement that will help advance the genome-sequencing of Covid-19 project, through techniques under development in Uruguay, using British technology, and thus providing this capacity to several countries in the region.