Tag: pandemic

• Thursday, December 17th 2020 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentina and UK hosted seminar on access to Covid-19 vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean

  

  Argentina and the UK hosted a virtual seminar on access to vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean addressing the portfolio of emerging vaccines against COVID-19, the challenge of equitable distribution and how best to tackle vaccine disinformation.

• Thursday, December 17th 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  IMF chief says 62% of lending has gone to 21 countries in Latin America

  

  Sixty-two percent of the International Monetary Fund’s lending in response to the coronavirus pandemic has gone to 21 countries in hard-hit Latin America, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

• Wednesday, December 16th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro cancels its annual New Year's Eve beach bash

  

  Rio de Janeiro's annual New Year's Eve beach bash, already reduced in scope and format, has been canceled due to the raging coronavirus pandemic, the mayor's office said Tuesday.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  As airlines reactivate planes, regulators and insurers call for extra attention to conditions and training

  

  Regulators, insurers and experts are warning airlines to take extra care when reactivating planes left in extended storage during the Covid-19 pandemic, citing potential pilot rustiness, maintenance errors and even insect nests blocking key sensors.

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  A third of the world population with no government aid during the pandemic, Oxfam

  

  More than a third of the world's population - some 2.7 billion people - has not received government aid during the coronavirus pandemic, Oxfam said on Tuesday, with gaping differences between rich and poor countries.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Argentina takes over the Mercosur chair for six months next 16 December

  

  Uruguay will hand to Argentina next 16 December the pro tempore chair of the South American trade bloc Mercosur. The ceremony as happened six months before with Paraguay will be virtual given the coronavirus pandemic, according to a release from the Uruguayan Executive Office.

• Saturday, December 12th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Guedes confident Brazil can help the vulnerable and ensure the spending cap

  

  The Brazilian government has the financial tools to support some of the country’s most vulnerable people next year without threatening the spending cap, its most important fiscal anchor, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Friday.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Panel of US FDA advisers votes to endorse emergency use of Pfizer vaccine

  

  A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday (Dec 10) voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer Inc's coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot for a nation that has lost more than 285,000 lives to Covid-19.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro certain Brazil is at the “tail end” of the pandemic

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday Brazil was at the “tail end” of the coronavirus pandemic, despite a surge in infections and deaths that many experts are calling a second wave.

• Tuesday, December 8th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentina passes new tax on the rich; opposition claims it will further deter foreign investment

  

  Argentina has passed a new wealth tax to help the government pay for health supplies and economic relief measures amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Lawmakers in the Senate passed the bill, dubbed the “millionaire’s tax,” by 42 votes to 26 late on Friday.