Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 21:04 UTC

  EU decides to focus on travelers instead of on where they come from

  

  European authorities finally decided to drop the contagion map approach to decide who gets in and who gets out of the bloc and switch to a coordinated mechanism based on each individual's vaccination status against COVID-19, the European Council announced Tuesday.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:33 UTC

  Trucks blocking trans-Andean traffic now add up to 3,000

  

  The conflict involving lorries trying to cross from Argentina into Chile through the Cristo Redentor-Libertadores pass has now escalated to the point of involving some 3,000 trucks stranded in the middle of the Andes, allegedly due to ultra meticulous sanitary requirements on the Chilean part.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  France eyes new rules which would let Djokovic play at Roland Garros

  

  According to the latest version of the everchanging press reports, France is now said to be eyeing a change in the immigration rules, which would allow Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic to play at the most emblematic French Open at Roland Garros after being deported from Australia for the first Grand Slam event of the year.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  NZ Prime Minister calls off wedding due to sanitary restrictions

  

  New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern who has announced her country was moving back to “the red traffic light setting” in a move to curb the spread of the coronavirus Omicron variant, has been forced to postpone her own wedding to comply with the sanitary restrictions.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:07 UTC

  Air Europa announces flights between Córdoba and Madrid via Asunción

  

  Just the week Aerolíneas Argentinas announced the return of seven weekly flights between Buenos Aires' Ezeiza and Madrid's Barajas, Spanish carrier Air Europa said it was coming back to the Argentine city of Córdoba, a service which had to be lifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  US now demands all foreigners be vaccinated to enter the country

  

  The Government of the United States has announced that effective Jan. 22, foreigners wishing to cross into the country by land or by boat from Canada will also be required to submit proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Booster doses in Uruguay to always be with the latest version of the drug

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday said “there will be an annual revaccination” against COVID-19 and announced the Government had secured a supply of Pfizer's drug for that purpose.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:10 UTC

  Austria passes law making COVID-19 vax mandatory

  

  The Austrian parliament Thursday approved the introduction of mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 by 137 votes in favor and 33 against. The measure will take effect Feb. 4. Austria has thus become the first European nation to legalize such a practice.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine President to remain isolated after close contact with COVID-19 case

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández is once again under isolation after it was determined he has been in close contact with a positive case of COVID-19, while Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has already been confirmed as having the disease.

• Wednesday, January 19th 2022 - 20:45 UTC

  UK to lift Plan B COVID-19 restrictions, PM announces

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Wednesday that his so-called Plan B sanitary restrictions applied in the Government's fight against COVID-19 will be lifted as of next week.