Tag: COVID-19

• 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.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Uruguay brings forwards Covid-19 vaccination as cases soar

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Wednesday announced that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 due to start in March 2023 had been moved forward in light of an increasing number of infections.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Scientists found sublineage of the omicron variant in Uruguay

  

  Institut Pasteur team detected a new omicron sublineage in Uruguay and warns of increased risk of covid-19 reinfection. However, the specialists clarified that “a major impact on protection against severe disease is not expected”.

• Saturday, December 17th 2022 - 08:53 UTC

  Uruguayan Health Minister says COVID-19 situation “under control”

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Friday said the COVID-19 situation in his country was “totally under control” and added that “what matters is not the number of cases but the impact on the health system and the acute-severe respiratory infections that may be occurring.”

• Thursday, December 15th 2022 - 11:25 UTC

  Argentine President reviews first three years of his administration

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández insisted Wednesday that his country was one that “grew and is growing” after having “gone through some of the worst storms.”

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 09:57 UTC

  COVID-19 keeps spreading in Argentina: 7 people reported dead

  

  Argentine health authorities have announced an alarming increase in the number of cases of COVID-19, which has doubled in the past week and grown above 1100% in one month. COVID-19-related deaths were reported to have amounted to 7 last week.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:18 UTC

  Argentina: COVID-19 spreading faster in Province of BA that in CABA

  

  The Argentine province of Buenos Aires has reported the fastest pace in the growing number of COVID-19 cases, surpassing that of the City of Buenos Aires which was leading national statistics up until this week.

• Friday, December 9th 2022 - 08:12 UTC

  CFK tests positive for COVID-19, Puebla Group Summit adjourned

  

  Argentine Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, after which all her engagements were called off and a gathering of Puebla Group leaders scheduled for later this month in Buenos Aires has been rescheduled, it was announced.