Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  Uruguay makes donation of 12,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to Paraguay

  

  Uruguayan health authorities Friday made a donation to Paraguay of 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca anticovid-19 vaccine, some of which are due to expire June 28 and the rest by the end of August, it was announced.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Delta variant becoming the globally dominant variant; steep rise in the UK

  

  The World Health Organization's (WHO) chief scientist said on Friday that the Delta variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, is becoming the globally dominant variant.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:05 UTC

  Chilean scientists sell marketing rights of alpaca-based antibody to German company

  

  The German company NanoTag Biotechnologies has purchased from The Austral University of Chile (AUCh) the marketing license for the W25 antibody, it was announced Friday in Santiago.

• Friday, June 18th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Brazilians flock into Portugal for the fourth straight year

  

  The arrival of Brazilian migrants into Portugal has reached new levels for the fourth consecutive year even despite the coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

• Friday, June 18th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  WHO focuses on possible dangers of coronavirus lambda variant

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to focus on the possible threats by the coronavirus variant known as Lambda, which was first found in August 2020 in Peru, when it was called C.37 or “Andean.”

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Brazil: 19 variants of coronavirus spot in Sao Paulo state, but Delta not one of them

  

  Brazil's Butantan Institute has identified 19 variants of the SARS-CoV-2 that were circulating in the state of Sao Paulo, with the Gamma strain -formerly known as P.1 or Manaus- spotted to have a prevalence of 89.9%.

• Thursday, June 17th 2021 - 08:45 UTC

  Germany's birth rate jumps to its highest since 1998, after the first wave of coronavirus

  

  Germans have been busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 10% birth rate jump in March to the highest figure since 1998, the Federal Statistical Office said in a release. Germany had already reported a 6% rise in births in February.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  52 cases of covid-19 detected so far at Copa America football tournament in Brazil

  

  Brazil's Health Ministry Tuesday reported a total of 52 cases of covid-19 had been detected through testing among delegations taking part in the Copa America football event.

• Wednesday, June 16th 2021 - 08:43 UTC

  Bolsonaro stands by his anti vaccine view of covid-19

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday spoke against both mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus and advertising campaigns to raise awareness of the need to be immunized.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2021 - 09:29 UTC

  Anvisa grants shelf-life extension for 3 million doses of Janssen single-dose vaccine in Brazil

  

  Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) on Monday granted a shelf-life extension to 3 million doses of Janssen's Covid-19 vaccine.