News of contagion

Vaccine hope, but enduring fear one year after pandemic declared

11-03-2021 22:50 One year on from the declaration of the coronavirus pandemic, vaccinations are offering hope. But much of humanity still enduring highly restricted lives, with no clear path back to normality.

Latin America's cities bustle like Covid is gone – but it’s not

20-09-2020 21:57 In Latin America’s big cities, as in other places around the globe, it almost feels like the virus never happened.

Brazilian cities lurch to lockdowns amid virus crisis red flags

13-05-2020 11:49 Faced with overwhelmed hospitals and surging coronavirus deaths, Brazilian state and city governments are lurching forward with mandatory lockdowns against the will of President Jair Bolsonaro, who says job losses are more damaging than COVID-19.

Costlier food hits Latin America’s poor and adds to unrest risk

11-05-2020 13:03 A jump in food prices across Latin America is bringing added misery to the poorest families hit by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing the chance of social unrest.

As cases rise, City officials analyse new dates for 'peak of the curve'

01-05-2020 12:42 City government now forecasts that the "peak of the curve" could occur between the last week of May and the first week of June, after a rise in the number of people infected in the last few days.

by Ezequiel Spillman

Brazilians begin to lift quarantine as death toll spikes

30-04-2020 17:46 Brazilians are resuming a measure of normal life just as Covid-19 deaths are spiking to hundreds per day, turning their country into a global hotspot.

Lack of virus testing stokes fears in world's refugee camps

23-04-2020 12:40 The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak.

China pushes back on Trump administration coronavirus theory

17-04-2020 18:13 China is pushing back against President Donald Trump and some of his officials, who've flirted in recent days with an outlier theory that the coronavirus was set loose by a Chinese lab that let it escape.

Doctor in Chaco becomes Argentina's 38th fatality from coronavirus

03-04-2020 14:37 Late doctor, named as Francisco Marín, is the 8th death from Covid-19 registered in Chaco Province, which has recorded more than 100 confirmed cases to date.

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

03-04-2020 08:30 From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince to Santiago, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived thanks to the well-off travelling abroad.

Health Ministry confirms first cases of ‘community transmission’ in Argentina

23-03-2020 16:12 Novel coronavirus is spreading via "community transmission" in CABA, its surroundings and "some cities in Chaco, Tierra del Fuego and Córdoba" provinces, says Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti.

Argentina's press unites in one voice, urging citizens to be responsible

19-03-2020 15:06 Local newspapers all published the same frontpage on Thursday, calling on citizens to act responsibly and "put the brakes" on the virus.