Uruguay

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Scientists found sublineage of the omicron variant in Uruguay

  

  Institut Pasteur team detected a new omicron sublineage in Uruguay and warns of increased risk of covid-19 reinfection. However, the specialists clarified that “a major impact on protection against severe disease is not expected”.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  Uruguayan Deputy Foreign Minister resigns over passport issuance scandal

  

  Carolina Ache Batlle Monday turned in her resignation as Uruguay's Deputy Foreign Minister following her involvement in the scandalous granting of a passport to well-known drug trafficker Sebastián Marset. On accepting her resignation, President Luis Lacalle Pou insisted he trusted the departing official.

• Monday, December 19th 2022 - 08:10 UTC

  Uruguay: ANCAP's boss foresees price drop at pumps

  

  Uruguay's state-run oil company ANCAP President Alejandro Stipanicic said the price of fuel at pumps should be adjusted downward shortly after such a trend has been registered for several weeks in the international market.

• Saturday, December 17th 2022 - 08:53 UTC

  Uruguayan Health Minister says COVID-19 situation “under control”

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Friday said the COVID-19 situation in his country was “totally under control” and added that “what matters is not the number of cases but the impact on the health system and the acute-severe respiratory infections that may be occurring.”

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 19:29 UTC

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister would like fewer requirements for foreign travelers

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera insisted this week that lifting all sanitary requirements from inbound travelers would be “the desirable” thing to do, but admitted that, in the end, such a decision was up to the health authorities who needed to protect the local population first and foremost.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 14:06 UTC

  Uruguayan embassy seeks humanitarian flight for 13 nationals stranded in Peru

  

  The Uruguayan Government, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is working to transfer in humanitarian flights for Uruguayans stranded in Peru after the decree of state of emergency came into force. Since Pedro Castillo was ousted and Dina Boluarte assumed the presidency, 12 people have died in clashes with security forces and six in roadblocks, with great mobilizations expected for Friday.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 13:58 UTC

  Uruguay-United States relations promise “a lot of development possible”

  

  Uruguay and the United States are on the path of a “possible development”, according to the Secretary of the Presidency of the South American country, Álvaro Delgado. The official highlighted Thursday the importance of the Alliance for Economic Prosperity in the Americas and the relationship with Washington.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Uruguay's economy unchanged since second quarter of 2022

  

  Uruguay's Central Bank (BCU) Thursday issued a report showing the country's economy for the third trimester of 2022 “remained at similar levels to those of the second quarter of the year.”

• Thursday, December 15th 2022 - 11:13 UTC

  Salinas said Uruguay has enough supply of the Pfizer vaccine

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Wednesday announced that additional vaccination centers would be opened for the administration of booster doses of the COVID-19 immunizer.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2022 - 10:59 UTC

  Uruguayan opposition wants heads to roll over controversial passport issuance to a drug lord

  

  Uruguayan opposition leader Fernando Pereira, president of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA), Tuesday called for the resignation of Ministers Francisco Bustillo (Foreign Affairs) and Luis Alberto Heber (Interior) after high-ranking officials under both of them were allegedly involved in the controversial issuance of a passport to a notorious drug lord.