Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Bolsonaro puts people's freedom of choice above vaccination mandates

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro once again Monday defended his decision not to take a COVID-19 vaccine and described the attitude of governors and mayors who demanded vaccination passports in their jurisdictions as “vicious.”

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Gen. Powell dies of COVID-19 aged 84

  

  Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the first African American ever to hold that position, died Monday of complications following a COVID-19 diagnosis. He was 84.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:57 UTC

  PAHO/ECLAC report on Covid-19 exposes the fragility of Latin America's health systems

  

  In n a new joint report released the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) urge the governments of the region to accelerate vaccination processes and improve health systems.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Poverty on the rise in Brazil

  

  Brazil's poverty indexes are on the rise despite President Jair Bolsonaro's claims that his actions, however controversial from a sanitary viewpoint regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, were always aimed at sustaining the country's economy.

• Sunday, October 17th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  ILO insists world needs global accelerator for jobs as well as social protection

  

  International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General Guy Ryder Friday called on countries to back the Global Accelerator for Jobs and Social Protection launched by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres together with the ILO, during last month's General Assembly.

• Saturday, October 16th 2021 - 06:57 UTC

  Tuberculosis deaths rise for the first time in more than a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic has reversed years of global progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB) and for the first time in over a decade, TB deaths have increased, according to the World Health Organization’s 2021 Global TB report.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay to make vaccination an option for tourists after borders reopen

  

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister Tabaré Viera Thursday announced his country would include COVID-19 vaccination to incoming foreign travellers when the country's borders are fully reopened.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 21:32 UTC

  Maritime transport crisis affects Catamarca exports of must

  

  Export of Argentine must through the San Francisco Path to Chile from the province of Catamarca have to wait due to the international logistics scenario, it was reported Thursday.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Reopening of land-crossings between Argentina and Paraguay nears

  

  People on both sides of the Argentina / Paraguay border eagerly await the prompt reopening of land crossings between the two countries.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  Uruguayan President highlights the importance of freedom

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou was highly praised for his speech before rural producers of his country and Argentina, where he addressed the issue of freedom.