Tag: COVID-19

• Monday, July 19th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Chile increases basic interest rate to 0,75%, working on a two year horizon

  

  Chilean Central Bank board members decided unanimously to increase the reference inter-bank interest rate some 25 base points to 0.75%, which represents the first rise in over two and a half years, given the improved economic prospects since the pandemic was triggered.

• Monday, July 19th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  UK PM Johnson to isolate after close contact with positive COVID-19 case

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to backtrack on his decision to stick to his commitments despite having been in touch with a positive case of covid-19.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  South African President says last week's attempted insurrection has failed

  

  Last week's wave of unrest and massive looting all across South Africa, which has left 212 people dead and 2,524 under arrest, was an “attempted insurrection” which “has failed” to achieve its goals, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 07:45 UTC

  China rejects any further investigation to COVID-19 origins at the Wuhan lab

  

  China openly rejected the World Health Organization request for more information, and transparency, regarding an investigation into the origins of the COVID 19 pandemic.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 14:32 UTC

  Brazil: Governor of São Paulo tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time

  

  João Doria, Governor of the Brazilian State of São Paulo, has tested yet again positive for Sars-CoV-2, despite having received both doses of the Coronavac immunizer, it was announced.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Falklands puts in practice quarantine options and warns about symptoms of Delta variant

  

  Falkland Islands' Executive Council, ExCo, approved on Thursday a further change to quarantine measures for people travelling to the Falkland Islands by air with the introduction of a new 5-day‘ test to release’ option. This initiative was identified during the latest six-week review of quarantine arrangements, in line with the requirements of the Infectious Diseases Control Regulations 2020, as well as in light of the Covid-19 vaccination status of the community.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 08:41 UTC

  Uruguayan President vows that should a 3rd dose be necessary it will be with the Pfizer vaccine

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday said the potential need for a third dose of an anticovid-19 vaccine was still under study but should the experts find it necessary it would be with the one produced by Pfizer.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 08:36 UTC

  Argentine Government decrees five days of mourning for victims of covid-19

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández Thursday decreed five days of mourning in tribute to the over 100,000 deadly victims of covid 19, a figure which reached six digits Wednesday.

• Thursday, July 15th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentine President's prophecy becomes true, but it turns out to be worse

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández, who had said earlier through the coronavirus pandemic that he would rather have 10% new poor people than 100,000 deaths is now faced with his prophecy.

• Thursday, July 15th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  State of exception decreed in Ecuador due to covid-19 Delta variant and Delta Plus subvariant

  

  Upon confirmation of the presence of the Delta and Delta Plus variants of the Sars-Cov-2, Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso, Wednesday decreed a state of exception focused exclusively on the areas where those detections have taken place.