Tag: Paraguay COVID-19

• Monday, August 2nd 2021 - 13:47 UTC

  Community contagion of coronavirus Delta variant confirmed in Paraguay

  

  Paraguay's Health Ministry has confirmed six cases of the coronavirus Delta variant in patients with no recent travel history, it was reported.

• Monday, August 2nd 2021 - 08:13 UTC

  Paraguay stays “Ba1” according to Moody’s risk rating scale

  

  The risk assessment agency Moody's continued to give Paraguay a stable “Ba1” rating at the end of July, despite the current shaky coronavirus economic scenario.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 07:58 UTC

  Paraguayan President says Covax mechanism “did not work”

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Monday said he was frustrated with the purchase of anticoronavirus vaccines through the World Health Organization's (WHO) Covax program, because “it did not work.” Abdo also thanked the countries which have donated immunizers to Paraguay.

• Wednesday, April 21st 2021 - 20:16 UTC

  Paraguay redirects funds from binational electric plants to anticovid effort

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez wants funds belonging to both binational hydroelectric plants, namely Itaipú and Yacyretá, redirected to the anticovid-19 effort and has instructed Directors Manuel María Cáceres and Nicanor Duarte Frutos to proceed accordingly.

• Wednesday, March 18th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Covid 19: Mercosur countries isolated from the world and among themselves

  

  The number of Coronavirus cases tested positive are increasing significantly, in the exponential leg of the process, in Mercosur country members and in Chile. Brazil reported the first death, a 62 year old man in Sao Paulo with a medical record of high pressure and diabetes.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Paraguay reports that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and 25 are under quarantine

  

  Paraguay confirmed that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and announced it was closing all schools and universities, public and private, and suspending all public and private activities that involve crowding people, for the next fifteen days.