News of coronavirus

UN: Covid shrinks Latin American trade for 2020

Yesterdat 15:49 The coronavirus pandemic has triggered the steepest drop in Latin American foreign trade in 2020 since the global financial crisis more than a decade ago, a UN body said Friday.

BIDEN INAUGURATION

‘Democracy has prevailed’: Joe Biden sworn-in as 46th US president

20-01-2021 14:10 Joe Biden on Wednesday became the 46th president of the United States, vowing a "new day" for the United States after four years of tumult under Donald Trump who in an extraordinary final act snubbed the inauguration.

Global pandemic

Desperate search for oxygen in Brazil's crisis-hit Manaus

20-01-2021 08:20 Under an overwhelming heat, dozens of people have been waiting for 12 hours to fill oxygen tanks and try to save the lives of their loved ones in Manaus, a Brazilian city plunged into chaos by the explosion of Covid-19 cases.

Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina sends Mexico supplies to produce Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

19-01-2021 17:59 Argentina has sent Mexico the first active ingredient necessary for the development of around one million doses of the British Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Global pandemic

Colombia will expel foreigners caught partying as Covid-19 spreads

19-01-2021 08:50 Colombian immigration officials announced Monday that foreign nationals caught taking part in underground parties in violation of a ban on social gatherings during the pandemic will be expelled from the country.

UNITED STATES

Biden facing 'competing crises' as he takes office

18-01-2021 23:57 Joe Biden has his work cut out for him as he prepares to be sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Second delivery of Russia's Sputnik vaccine arrives in Argentina

18-01-2021 18:13 Flight carrying second doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine arrived at Ezeiza over weekend. Shots will be distributed to recipients in coming weeks.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Parents demand return of face-to-face classes at schools

16-01-2021 17:39 Group of parents pressure government, organising themselves via social media to demand restoration of face-to-face classes and a meeting with Education Minister Nicolás Trotta.

Global pandemic

Argentina detects first case of British coronavirus variant

16-01-2021 16:24 Argentina has detected its first case of a British-identified coronavirus variant that appears to be more infectious, authorities said Saturday.

GLOBAL PANDEMIC

Global Covid-19 death toll passes two million

16-01-2021 07:37 The global death toll from Covid-19 passed two million on Friday, with the WHO urging mass vaccinations.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Officials preach ‘prevention and care’ as fatalities surpass 45,000

16-01-2021 07:15 More than 200,000 citizens now vaccinated against Covid-19, says Health Ministry; Second flight carrying doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine due to arrive in Buenos Aires today.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Covid patient who took chlorine dioxide dies in hospital

15-01-2021 18:25 Outrage after judge compels private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide to 92-year-old coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors labelled "a scandal."

Global pandemic

Evo Morales: Fernández offered Covid-19 treatment in Argentina

14-01-2021 23:50 Former Bolivia president Evo Morales, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, said on Thursday he has received treatment offers from allies Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba.

Coronavirus pandemic

Government set to authorise re-opening of the cinemas

14-01-2021 23:19 Culture Ministry officials agree coronavirus protocols with business chambers, unions and film industry staff to allow the re-opening of cinemas.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC reveals inflation reached 36.1% in 2020

14-01-2021 19:44 Argentina registered cumulative inflation of 36.1% in 2020, with product prices rising fast in the final months of the year.

Global pandemic

UK to ban South American, Portugal arrivals over Brazil virus strain

14-01-2021 15:47 Britain bans all arrivals from South America, Panama, Cape Verde and Portugal over fears of importing a new coronavirus variant from Brazil.

Working from home

Pandemic-driven shift to home work carries risks, UN says

13-01-2021 23:47 Issues facing home workers and their employers need greater attention, including better safeguards and more awareness of the rights and risks involved, warns United Nations.

Coronavirus pandemic

Scientists prove that Covid-19 survivors’ plasma could reduce deaths

13-01-2021 16:43 Study led by Argentine scientists concludes blood plasma from recovered Covid-19 patients can reduce chances of patient’s becoming seriously sick from virus.

GLOBAL PANDEMIC

Reports: Pope Francis receives coronavirus vaccine

13-01-2021 12:05 Pope Francis, 84, was given the coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, according to media reports.

Coronavirus pandemic

Police raid swingers party – and guests confuse officer with stripper

11-01-2021 19:08 In scenes that seem to have been ripped straight out a comedy movie, police officers in Buenos Aires Province raided a secret swingers’ party this weekend – only for attendees to mistake one officer for a stripper.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentine judge orders chlorine dioxide be given to Covid patient

11-01-2021 16:28 Outrage as judge compels private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide to a coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors have labelled "a scandal."

Global pandemic

A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle

11-01-2021 12:19 January 11, 2021 marks the anniversary of China confirming its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus – a 61-year-old man who was a regular at the now-notorious Wuhan wet market linked to many of the early cases.

Coronavirus pandemic

Decree details new nighttime restrictions

09-01-2021 16:07 Regional leaders granted power to decide on timeframe of new restrictions. Officials in Buenos Aires City and Province say businesses, food and drink establishments and venues must shut between 1am to 6am, set 10-person limit on social gatherings.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina to introduce night-time curfew to reduce Covid-19 infections

07-01-2021 11:43 The government will today announce an immediate national night-time curfew, lasting from 11pm to 6am, until the number of new Covid-19 infections decreases throughout the country.

Coronavirus pandemic

City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta tests positive for Covid-19

06-01-2021 18:00 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta confirms in tweet that he has tested positive for Covid-19.

Global pandemic

UK PM Johnson orders new lockdown, closes schools in England

04-01-2021 17:23 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new strict coronavirus restrictions, closing schools and ordering a third national lockdown for England.

Coronavirus pandemic

Fernández: ‘People aren’t being careful… the pandemic is not over’

04-01-2021 14:04 President “concerned” by new surge of infections and calls on citizens, especially young people, to observe preventative measures.

Coronavirus pandemic

11,000 new cases in Argentina as Latin America reaches 500,000 deaths

30-12-2020 05:43 Argentina recorded a new surge in coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with Health Ministry officials recording more than 11,000 new cases in 24 hours.

Global pandemic

Britain records new daily high of more than 53,000 virus cases

29-12-2020 16:30 Britain on Tuesday registered a new daily high of more than 53,000 Covid-19 cases, as concern mounted about spiralling numbers of positive tests and pressure on health services.

Global pandemic

Chile reports Latin America's first detected case of new virus strain

29-12-2020 16:24 Health authorities responded to the news by announcing that from December 31, everyone arriving in Chile would have to spend 10 days in quarantine.

Covid-19 vaccination

Covid-19 vaccinations begin in provinces across country

29-12-2020 11:51 The government launched its Covid-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday morning using Sputnik V shots developed by Russia.

Abortion bill

Polarised upper house set to vote on legalising abortion

29-12-2020 08:31 A polarised Senate will decide Tuesday whether to legalise abortion in Argentina in a vote experts say could go either way.

Covid-19 vaccine

Argentina becomes first Latin American nation to approve Russian vaccine

24-12-2020 01:00 Health Ministry authorises emergency approval of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, with first shipment expected to arrive in country on Thursday.

BLOOMBERG

Uruguay sees ‘first wave’ threatening long-protected Covid gains

23-12-2020 00:09 Nine months after recording its first coronavirus case, Uruguay is seeing an outbreak in what President Luis Lacalle Pou has called the “first wave,” threatening to undo the hard-fought gains throughout the pandemic.

Coronavirus pandemic

Bolsonaro backs vaccine campaign despite personal opposition

17-12-2020 14:48 Brazil is negotiating the purchase of 350 million doses of coronavirus vaccines for 2021, including 210 million of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that is largely made in Brazil by the Fiocruz institute, and 70 million of Pfizer's vaccine.

Covid-19 Pandemic

Study shows pandemic threatens fragile democracies

13-12-2020 20:44 A study by Sweden-based organisation, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), found that approximately 60 percent of countries around the world have adopted health and safety measures during the Covid-19 crisis that infringe on democratic principles.

Covid-19 vaccine

Fernández puts faith in Russia's vaccine, says he'll be first in line

10-12-2020 17:21 Government is planning to give Russia's Sputnik vaccine to 10 million vulnerable Argentines before March, President Alberto Fernández announces, before vowing he'll be first in line to take it.

ABORTION DEBATE

Lower house set to vote on bill to legalise abortion

10-12-2020 02:54 Chamber of Deputies set to vote on bill to legalise abortion in Argentina. Session due to begin at 11am, with vote on initiative expected to take place in early hours of Friday morning.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Devastated by Covid, Latin America is now unprepared for vaccine

10-12-2020 00:58 With eight percent of the globe’s population and 30 percent of its Covid-19 deaths, Latin America is facing the pandemic’s next phase – mass vaccination – with alarm.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina surpasses 40,000 deaths from Covid-19

09-12-2020 09:44 Argentina surpassed the grim landmark of 40,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Tuesday – a reminder that the novel coronavirus is still a potent threat in the country.

Vaccine

Grandmother, 90, gets first Covid jab as UK starts vaccine drive

08-12-2020 08:08 Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old British grandmother, becomes the first person in a Western country to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine. The second, would you believe it, was called William Shakespeare.

HUNT FOR VACCINE

BioNTech: plucky German upstart wins Covid-19 vaccine race

02-12-2020 15:36 A small German biotech firm, started by a husband and wife team with Turkish roots, has created the first authorised vaccine for use in the Western world to help end the coronavirus pandemic.

Global pandemic

Poverty-stricken Brazilians fear looming end of Covid-19 emergency cash

02-12-2020 14:58 More than 67 million low-income workers receive Covid-19 relief payments in Brazil, which are set to expire at the end of the year. Many of them are fearing what lies ahead.

Abortion bill

Congress begins debate on bill to legalise abortion

01-12-2020 17:36 Lower house opened debate on the government’s abortion bill on Tuesday, with President Alberto Fernández hoping to legalise the process in Argentina by the end of the year.

Coronavirus pandemic

Fernández extends distancing measures, only two cities to remain in isolation

29-11-2020 09:09 President Alberto Fernández said Friday that only two cities in Argentina will remain under strict isolation measures to tackle the spread of Covid-19, as he extended existing social distancing measures for the rest of the country.

Rugby: Tri Nations

All Blacks bounce back to crush grieving Pumas

29-11-2020 08:19 Argentina, playing just days after the death of football legend Diego Maradona, lacked cohesion after making 10 changes to side for clash against New Zealand, who were seeking revenge.

Politics & the pandemic

In Maradona's shadow

28-11-2020 13:52 Diego Maradona has died and everything else in Argentina will now have to wait.

by Martín Gambarotta

HUNT FOR VACCINE

Government wants to begin Covid-19 vaccinations in January

24-11-2020 22:07 Government plans to start its massive vaccination programme in January, as long as the vaccines are ready available, says Health Minister Ginés González García.

TRAVEL & TOURISM

Buenos Aires to re-open for national and international tourism

24-11-2020 21:59 City Hall announces it will allow arrivals via airports, ports, bus, train and private vehicles, starting next month. Visitors will require a Covid-19 test and will only need to isolate if it comes back positive.

Global pandemic

Pandemic inflames gender violence against women

23-11-2020 15:58 No country has been spared the coronavirus epidemic, nor the scourge of domestic violence, which has surged during lockdowns as the day marking such violence approaches on Wednesday.

News of coronavirus

UN: Covid shrinks Latin American trade for 2020

‘Democracy has prevailed’: Joe Biden sworn-in as 46th US president

Desperate search for oxygen in Brazil's crisis-hit Manaus

Argentina sends Mexico supplies to produce Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

Colombia will expel foreigners caught partying as Covid-19 spreads

Biden facing 'competing crises' as he takes office

Second delivery of Russia's Sputnik vaccine arrives in Argentina

Parents demand return of face-to-face classes at schools

Argentina detects first case of British coronavirus variant

Global Covid-19 death toll passes two million

Officials preach ‘prevention and care’ as fatalities surpass 45,000

Covid patient who took chlorine dioxide dies in hospital

Evo Morales: Fernández offered Covid-19 treatment in Argentina

Government set to authorise re-opening of the cinemas

INDEC reveals inflation reached 36.1% in 2020

UK to ban South American, Portugal arrivals over Brazil virus strain

Pandemic-driven shift to home work carries risks, UN says

Scientists prove that Covid-19 survivors’ plasma could reduce deaths

Reports: Pope Francis receives coronavirus vaccine

Police raid swingers party – and guests confuse officer with stripper

Argentine judge orders chlorine dioxide be given to Covid patient

A year after first death in China, coronavirus source still a puzzle

Decree details new nighttime restrictions

Argentina to introduce night-time curfew to reduce Covid-19 infections

City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta tests positive for Covid-19

UK PM Johnson orders new lockdown, closes schools in England

Fernández: ‘People aren’t being careful… the pandemic is not over’

11,000 new cases in Argentina as Latin America reaches 500,000 deaths

Britain records new daily high of more than 53,000 virus cases

Chile reports Latin America's first detected case of new virus strain

Covid-19 vaccinations begin in provinces across country

Polarised upper house set to vote on legalising abortion

Argentina becomes first Latin American nation to approve Russian vaccine

Uruguay sees ‘first wave’ threatening long-protected Covid gains

Bolsonaro backs vaccine campaign despite personal opposition

Study shows pandemic threatens fragile democracies

Fernández puts faith in Russia's vaccine, says he'll be first in line

Lower house set to vote on bill to legalise abortion

Devastated by Covid, Latin America is now unprepared for vaccine

Argentina surpasses 40,000 deaths from Covid-19

Grandmother, 90, gets first Covid jab as UK starts vaccine drive

BioNTech: plucky German upstart wins Covid-19 vaccine race

Poverty-stricken Brazilians fear looming end of Covid-19 emergency cash

Congress begins debate on bill to legalise abortion

Fernández extends distancing measures, only two cities to remain in isolation

All Blacks bounce back to crush grieving Pumas

In Maradona's shadow

Government wants to begin Covid-19 vaccinations in January

Buenos Aires to re-open for national and international tourism

Pandemic inflames gender violence against women

Life without Trump will not be easy

Biden to adopt ‘dramatically different’ approach to Latin America

Pepe and Pepo head Lanús’ push for second Copa Sudamericana title

YPF stuns creditors as nation’s dollars dwindle

Argentina greets Biden’s inauguration with mixed messages

Preocupa la salud del Papa Francisco: no podrá oficiar sus próximas misas

Quién es Gabriela Piovano, la infectóloga que acusó de “agitador” a Wiñazki en vivo

Horacio Rodríguez Larreta sostuvo la vuelta a clases en la Ciudad como una bandera de Juntos por el Cambio

Carrió debería aprender de Cristina

Quiénes son los próximos en vacunarse: el Gobierno analiza los rubros de alimentación y transporte