Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, August 7th 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  Some 44% of Mexicans, 56 million, were considered poor at the end of 2020

  

  Of the 126 million Mexican population, almost 44% were considered poor at the end of 2020, according to official data from the government. In effect, 3,8 million Mexicans fell below the official poverty line last year to reach 56 million compared with the end of 2018, when current president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office.

• Friday, August 6th 2021 - 22:17 UTC

  Peru tilts towards China, but taxing miners will become a controversial issue

  

  Recently inaugurated Peruvian president Pedro Castillo seems to be clearly tilting his country towards China: cabinet members have met with the Beijing ambassador, an updating of the 2009 trade accord between the two countries is advancing and this Friday the president will be vaccinated with the SinoPharm Covid 19 shot.

• Friday, August 6th 2021 - 22:13 UTC

  “We need to make people feel safe in public transport, mask wearing should be compulsory,” London mayor

  

  London Mayor Sadiq Khan is lobbying the UK government to make mask-wearing on the Underground mandatory and required by law, which will make people feel safe travelling on public transportation.

• Friday, August 6th 2021 - 08:09 UTC

  Uruguay will not change vaccination plans despite WHO's request

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Thursday denied his country was to change course in its coronavirus immunization drive despite the World Health Organization's (WHO) requested that countries with a surplus of vaccines should donate them before applying the third dose.

• Friday, August 6th 2021 - 07:44 UTC

  Foreign airlines may continue to lift operations in Argentina if restrictions continue

  

  Foreign airlines still operating in Argentina have voiced yet again their concerns over their future due to the country's restrictions on the number of flights allowed through Buenos Aires' Ezeiza international airport.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 11:45 UTC

  Uruguay plans to open up gradually, first to those vaccinated with any anti COVID-19 drug

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Tourism is planning to first allow in only foreigners who have taken a full coronavirus vaccination scheme, regardless of its brand, as the gradual reopening of borders seems imminent.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 07:47 UTC

  Chinese lab Sinovac lands in Chile to pack and manufacture vaccines locally

  

  Chinese laboratory Sinovac Wednesday announced it will build a plant in Chile to locally distribute 60 million yearly doses of the Coronavac vaccine against COVID-19 with which to supply other Latin American countries.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Latin American countries eye Argentine production of Russian vaccine to cover regional demand

  

  Several South American countries as well as the Russian developers of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are relying on Argentina's output of the immunizer to cope with regional demand.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  Wuhan braces for new restrictive COVID-19 measures, all citizens to be tested

  

  Wuhan, the Chinese city where the whole coronavirus pandemic kicked off in late 2019, is back under the spotlight following the decision of local health authorities to test the entire population in the aftermath of a new outbreak after 14 months with zero cases of domestic transmission.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentine province of Córdoba makes isolation at hotels compulsory for travelers who test positive on arrival

  

  Health authorities in the Argentine province of Córdoba have ruled that all travelers who test positive for the Delta variant of the coronavirus are to isolate at hotels, following a recent local outbreak.