News of covid19

Pandemic upends lives of Latin America's domestic servants

28-04-2020 12:34 The coronavirus pandemic in Latin America has hit domestic workers particularly hard, often leaving maids without income or forcing them to be stranded at the homes of their employers.

BANKING

Warning signs: four indicators that scare Argentine banks during the pandemic

25-04-2020 11:27 Has Latin America escaped the worst of the pandemic? Or is the region just grossly untested and underreported?

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Inspectors sent to audit City retirement homes after run of infections

25-04-2020 10:19 Amid fears for the wellbeing of the elderly, residents at care homes in Belgrano, Flores and Parque Avellaneda hospitalised after first confirmed Covid-19 cases inside care homes.

AS I SEE IT

Waiting for the end

11-04-2020 11:02 Covid-19 is here to stay and we will have to get used to living with it, just as we have with whatever causes the common flu, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, pneumonia, diabetes and many other deadly ailments.

by James Neilson

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Hitting the reset button to avoid a new Great Depression

04-04-2020 08:17 So far so good, it seemed. Yet the emergence of partisan bickering this weekhas tainted what appeared to be one of the most successful state and political reactions to the coronavirus crisis, amplified by the botched responses of countries like Spain and Italy, and leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dictatorship-era criminals request release from jail, citing virus risk

28-03-2020 10:15 More than 70 prisoners convicted of crimes against humanity have asked for house arrest, citing fears they will be infected by the novel Covid-19 coronavirus while behind bars.

by Luciana Bertoia

GLOBAL CRISIS

Coronavirus outbreak could be an opportunity for Alberto Fernández

21-03-2020 09:26 Fernández and his Cabinet had only one tangible mission upon taking power: renegotiating Argentina’s massive debt pile in terms that would give the economy time to “get back on its feet.”

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Pandemic Outbreak

Africa, Latin America fragile targets for coronavirus spread

20-03-2020 14:37 With the coronavirus now moving into parts of the world that are the least prepared, countries are grappling with limited ventilators, healthcare workers, and ICU beds.

Pandemic Outbreak

Government steps up efforts to bring stranded Argentines home

18-03-2020 11:39 The first Aerolineas Argentinas flight left Miami on Wednesday morning, bringing stranded Argentines and foreign nationals back home.

Pandemic Outbreak

World virus infections hit 200,000; Borders jammed in Europe

18-03-2020 10:55 Fearing a global shutdown, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands announce rescue packages totalling hundreds of billions of dollars.

Pandemic Consequences

Dow plummets again as sell-off over the coronavirus deepens

12-03-2020 13:24 Stocks slide, triggering brief, automatic shutdown in trading for the second time this week. Oil also declined, price per barrel plummeting to under US$31.

Coronavirus Consequences

Coronavirus: Buenos Aires City Government bans events, large gatherings

12-03-2020 09:37 Museums and tour busses will also cease all activity in an effort to limit foreign tourist activity in the nation's capital.

Pandemic in Argentina

Two new diagnoses push Argentina coronavirus total up to 21

12-03-2020 09:17 Of the 21 confirmed coronavirus cases, 12 are in the capital, with four in Buenos Aires Province, two in Chaco, one in San Luis, one in Córdoba and one in Río Negro.