Tag: COVID-19

• Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Latin America new covid-19 epicenter; labs vow to help but hold on to vaccine patents

  

  The total number of deaths due to covid-19 in Latin American countries has crossed for the first time the psychological barrier of one million people, it was reported Friday.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:43 UTC

  NGOs expose the mega rich that benefit from monopoly control of vaccine alliance

  

  Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group claimed, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations' “monopoly control” on vaccine technology.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2021 - 00:39 UTC

  WHO creates experts' network panel to prevent zoonotic outbreaks

  

  The World Health Organization and three other international bodies, FAO, OIE and UNEP have formed a team of experts to help develop a global plan to prevent the spread of diseases from animals to humans.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Most of Argentina under strict confinement as of Saturday

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Thursday decreed nine days of strict confinement starting Saturday in what he claimed was a measure to lower the increasing number of coronavirus cases.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Last LATAM Argentina Airbus flies back home from Aeroparque which halts regional flights

  

  Operation of regional flights at the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA)'s only airfield commonly known as Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport (AEP/SABE), which reopened recently following renovations, have been shifted to the Ezeiza Ministro Pistarini international airport (technically in the Province of Buenos Aires) due to lack of proper coronavirus detecting facilities.

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  EU finalizes vaccine passport details as Summer season looms over

  

  The European Commission has reached a decision whereby all member states are to accept the digital covid-19 certificate also known as “vaccine passport,” a document which will show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, and refrain from imposing additional travel measures such as quarantines to its citizens,

• Friday, May 21st 2021 - 08:24 UTC

  Paraguay to import large amounts of medical oxygen from Brazil

  

  Paraguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday announced 784 tons of oxygen for medical use had been cleared for import from Brazil as part of the anticoronavirus efforts.

• Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Gibraltar message to the cruise industry, “we're back in business”

  

  Gibraltar is ready to welcome back cruise ships, their passengers, and their crew. The Port of Gibraltar and the Gibraltar Tourist Board have continued to work proactively during this pandemic to support the cruise industry.

• Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:42 UTC

  Uruguay eases down travel restrictions against covid-19

  

  The Government of Uruguay Wednesday has decided that foreign travellers with both doses of any vaccine against covid-19 and a negative PCR test will not have to undergo a mandated quarantine upon entry.

• Thursday, May 20th 2021 - 08:39 UTC

  Astra-Zeneca vaccines produced jointly by Mexico and Argentina almost ready for delivery

  

  The first batch of Oxford-Astra Zeneca anticoronavirus vaccines produced jointly by Mexico and Argentina are almost ready to start shipping, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard announced Wednesday.