Tag: lockdown

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:50 UTC

  Uruguay: The second highest population-related covid-19 deaths in South America in the last week

  

  Following the latest death toll from covid-19 in Uruguay (238 in the last seven days), the country moved up to second place in South America in terms of the number of deaths from the disease relative to its population (3.5 million) in the last week. A study shows that the behaviour of the population in the face of the pandemic during 2020 has changed in the last weeks, resulting in more mobility amid record daily cases and a progressive vaccination program.

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:42 UTC

  Lacalle: Virtual schooling in Uruguay to go on until May but ruled out stricter measures

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday announced virtual schooling in his country would continue until at least May 3, amid soaring numbers of covid-19 infections.

• Thursday, April 8th 2021 - 10:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro rules out lockdown despite growing number of covid-19 cases and mounting pressure

  

  Despite the growing number of covid-19 cases nationwide, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Wednesday insisted there would be no further restrictive measures and ruled out a full-scale lockdown.

• Monday, April 5th 2021 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina's economy can't afford another total lockdown, minister says

  

  Argentina's economy minister Martin Guzman said in a television interview on Saturday that his country could not afford a new total quarantine and made it clear that the government would have to find another way to deal with the new stage of the covid-19 pandemic.

• Saturday, March 27th 2021 - 08:50 UTC

  Paraguay under strict lockdown as of Saturday

  

  Paraguay has decreed a strict state of lockdown as of this Saturday at 00.00 as a measure to curb the spread of the Sars-Cov-2 virus, particularly the Brazilian P1 variant, also known as Manaus, and which has been affecting the country's health system severely in the past days.

• Friday, March 26th 2021 - 10:02 UTC

  Chile lockdown 86% of its population due to new strains of Covid

  

  The government of Chile Thursday decided to tighten the anti-covid-19 measures already in force after 64 cases of the British strain and 45 of the Brazilian ones were detected out of a total of 7,023 new daily cases of coronavirus were reported.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2021 - 17:02 UTC

  Fresh lockdown for 13 million Chileans despite vaccine success

  

  The Chilean government has announced a new series of confinement measures for some 70% of the country’s population following a 36% hike in Covid cases over the last two weeks.

• Saturday, March 20th 2021 - 09:17 UTC

  Rio beaches closed for the weekend and no tourists allowed into the city

  

  Rio de Janeiro closed its famed beaches on Friday in a bid to contain a surge of COVID-19, a move criticized by anti-lockdown President Jair Bolsonaro, who said sun-deprived citizens risked a lack of vitamin D.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil: record 2,841 Covid-19 related deaths; Sao Paulo demands a national lockdown

  

  Health officials in Sao Paulo, have called on the new health minister to consider imposing a national lockdown as coronavirus deaths continue to rise. On Tuesday Brazil recorded 2,841 Covid-related deaths - its highest ever daily total.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Covid-19 lockdowns hit hard global fisheries and aquaculture affecting supply and demand in the sector

  

  Global fisheries and aquaculture have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and could face further disruption in 2021 as lockdowns affect supply and demand across the sector, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).