Tag: lockdown

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:42 UTC

  Reopening professional sports leagues in US is possible but in empty stadiums

  

  The top US health and infectious disease specialist says the key to reopening professional sports leagues in America is to have the athletes play games in front of empty stadiums. Anthony Fauci, who is helping to coordinate the US response to the global coronavirus pandemic, said reliable antibody testing and fast results are also crucial to the return of sports.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 19:31 UTC

  IMF: Uruguay's economy will fall 3% in 2020; Latin America's, 5.2%

  

  According to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Uruguayan economy will decrease by 3% this 2020. The “great closure” has been how the international body has defined, as the title of its World Economic Outlook, government measures against the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  US controversy as to who decides reopening the economy and lifting ”stay at home”

  

  President Donald Trump said on Monday it was his decision when to reopen the U.S. economy, not that of state governors, but legal experts disagree and governors are going their own way.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Macron extends lockdown to curb coronavirus until May 11

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced he was extending a lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak until May 11, adding that progress had been made but the battle not yet won.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 12:18 UTC

  Foreigners in India made to write 500 times “I did not follow the rules of lockdown so I am sorry”

  

  Foreigners who broke a coronavirus lockdown in an Indian town made famous by the Beatles, were forced to repent by writing “I am so sorry” - 500 times, officials said on Sunday. The nationwide lockdown was imposed near the end of March, with residents permitted to leave their homes only for essential services such as buying groceries and medicine.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Following transgender complaints, Peru cancels “gender-based lockdown”

  

  Peru canceled a controversial measure restricting public movement by gender to try to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, after just over a week. A decree in the official gazette stated that instead of men and women leaving their homes on alternate days “to buy food, pharmaceutical products and perform financial operations, only one person per family unit can move from Monday to Saturday.”

• Saturday, April 11th 2020 - 10:08 UTC

  Argentina extends lockdown in urban areas until April 27

  

  Argentina will extend until April 27 the lockdown it imposed last month to control the spread of the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said in a televised address on Friday, adding that the measure would be applied only in major cities.

• Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  UK dairy farmers dumping milk because of the lockdown; fears of lack of farm hands for harvests

  

  Deprived of customers such as supermarkets, restaurants, and schools due to the coronavirus outbreak and resulting lockdown, British farmers are throwing away thousands of liters of milk.

• Saturday, April 4th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Chaos in Argentine banks as crowds tried to collect government assistance

  

  Argentines left their homes in droves as banks reopen their branches to give out government assistance. Thousands of pensioners and citizens who receive government welfare lined up outside banks to get their monthly payments. Branches, which have been closed since a nationwide lockdown began March 20, reopened Friday so that citizens who can't receive the payments on debit could receive the cash.

• Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina under lockdown makes time to recall the start of the Malvinas conflict, 38 years ago

  

  “On April 2nd we claim sovereignty over our Malvinas Islands” was the message twitted by Argentine president Alberto Fernandez on the Malvinas War Veteran and Fallen Day, outstanding date in the official calendar of the country which recalls that 38 years ago, Argentine forces invaded the Falklands, triggering a conflict that would end 74 days later.