Tag: COVID-19

• Friday, January 27th 2023 - 09:54 UTC

  WHO Committee to declare end of Covid-19 emergency?

  

  An Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization convening Friday might decide to declare the end of the “public health emergency” stemming from Covid-19. The committee's decision is to be announced on Jan. 30.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Newest Omicron variant: WHO recommends air passengers to wear masks on long haul flights

  

  Given the fast spread of the newest Omicron variant of Covid 19, countries should require air passengers to wear masks on long-haul flights, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially requested.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

  Covid-19 Kraken variant detected in Gibraltar

  

  The Government of Gibraltar as advised by Public Health Gibraltar can confirm that the Kraken variant of COVID-19 has been detected from samples taken last week.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:27 UTC

  Sanitary precautions upped in triple-border region

  

  Sanitary workers in the newly-created county of Fracrán in the Argentine province of Misiones have undertaken a house-by-house campaign to persuade people to get vaccinated against yellow fever, Covid-19, and measles, while residents were advised to up their precautions due to the increasing number of cases in neighboring Paraguay, where the first death due to chikungunya has been reported.

• Saturday, January 14th 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  WHO updates isolation recommendations for Covid-19 patients

  

  The World Health Organization Friday shortened to 10 the number of days that a patient testing positive for Covid-19 should remain in isolation. Before Friday, WHO suggested people with symptoms stayed 13 days in isolation while 10 days was only for asymptomatic cases.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 19:07 UTC

  Circulation of Covid-19 increasing in Argentina

  

  Argentine health authorities Tuesday warned of an increase in the number of cases of Covid-19 and insisted there was “very high circulation” of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, due to which people were advised to update their vaccination scheme since immunity lasts about 4 months.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 09:39 UTC

  Number of Covid-19 cases on the rise in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan health authorities Monday announced the country had detected over 8,900 cases of Covid-19 last week for a total of 1,020,161 confirmed infections since the onset of the pandemic.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Brazilian investigators find Bolsonaro committed incitement to crime

  

  Brazil's Federal Police (PF) has found evidence proving that President Jair Bolsonaro might have committed the crime of spreading false information about the Covid-19 pandemic when he linked the use of vaccines to the development of the AIDS virus

• Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina to receive bivalent Covid-19 vaccines in first quarter of 2023

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry Carla Vizzotti insisted that people needed to get an additional shot of Covid-19 vaccine if the last application was over 120 days ago, regardless of the number of doses taken previously, and announced the country would have bivalent vaccines available in the first quarter of 2023.

• Tuesday, December 27th 2022 - 08:05 UTC

  More funding for Argentine-developed Covid-19 booster jab

  

  Argentina's National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation (Agencia I+D+i) granted funding worth AR$ 1.1 billion (around US$ 3.18 million at the unofficial exchange rate) to carry out clinical studies of phases II and III of the “ARVAC Cecilia Grierson” Covid 19 vaccine, it was reported.