Tag: COVID-19

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Inflation once again brings on increase in poverty throghout Paraguay

  

  Analysts foresee official data for the year 2021 will show an increase in poverty for the second straight year in Paraguay and will reach almost 30% due mainly to increasing inflation, analysts said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Mar del Plata doctors successfully tackle COVID-19 from a different angle

  

  A group of physicians from the Argentine beach resort of Mar del Plata have been trying a new therapy against COVID-19 of their own concoction which has so far yielded “very encouraging results,” according to press reports.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 20:08 UTC

  German families seek shelter in Paraguay from vaccines and lockdowns

  

  German citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or put up to harsh mobility restrictions have fled their country and sought shelter in a community within Paraguay, it was reported.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch nationwide health pass

  

  Health ministers of all Argentine jurisdictions gathered under the Federal Council known as COFESA, Monday announced the guidelines for a nationwide Health Pass had been agreed upon and that its final details were to be specified shortly.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Uruguayan minister wants borders open to welcome visitors from everywhere

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera said over the weekend that his country's “land, air and sea borders must be open” for visitors.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Expedition cruise Ultramarine anchored in Ushuaia bay finally cleared to sail

  

  The expedition cruise Ultramarine from Quark Expeditions, anchored in Ushuaia Bay, extreme south of Argentina, finally was liberated after Covid-19 testing among the crew proved negative. The crew was never allowed ashore and had to wait until the Covid-19 outbreak was considered under control.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  WTO urges members to end fisheries subsidies discussions by next February/March

  

  World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala urged delegation heads to redouble their efforts to bridge differences on the ongoing discussions on curbing harmful fisheries subsidies by the end of February 2022. Discussions were suspended because of the Covid-19 Omicron variant

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Omicron variant dilemma, “nobody is safe until everybody is safe”.

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – The new Omicron variant of the Covid-19 virus was discovered last week by scientists in South Africa and Botswana, the only countries in southern Africa that have the skills and resources to detect a new variant.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:19 UTC

  Bolsonaro allegedly wants to make mandatory vaccination up to federal gov't

  

  Press reports which went viral Monday said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was entertaining the idea of signing an administrative decision whereby only the Federal Government would have the authority to decide on a mandatory vaccination against COVID-19.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Foreign travellers will need Health Pass to enter Colombia

  

  Colombia is to require foreign travellers to submit proof of vaccination against COVID-19 attesting to a full treatment, President Iván Duque announced Monday.