News of health workers

Government intervenes to avert strike in health-worker pay dispute

02-07-2021 14:30 Labour Ministry bans healthcare workers from staging two days of walkouts, ordering 15 days of talks between unions and companies from sector to resolve pay dispute.

DEMONSTRATION

Nurses, health workers protest for improved pay, working conditions

13-05-2021 02:26 Healthcare professionals, working round the clock to tackle the impact of Covid-19 second wave, take to the streets calling for improved pay and working conditions.

POLITICS & THE PANDEMIC

Covid tsunami

10-04-2021 08:52 The second wave is here and it already looks challenging. A winter of discontent looms ahead of the midterm elections.

by Martín Gambarotta

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Covid-19 second wave arrives with exhausted economy, citizenry

10-04-2021 07:26 Government introduces new restrictions after surge in infections, hoping to tread thin line between economic pain and healthcare gain.

Global Pandemic

Venezuela to begin Covid immunisation programme with Sputnik V

18-02-2021 12:44 President Nicolás Maduro announces healthcare workers, legislators, members of the Armed Forces and authorities will start to receive Covid-19 vaccines, with mass immunisation campaign is planned for April.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Argentina better prepared for Covid-19 second wave, says official

06-02-2021 08:32 Health Minister Ginés González García says Argentina has signed contracts for the provision for 62 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines – but provides little information on delivery dates.

100 DAYS OF QUARANTINE

100 days of quarantine

27-06-2020 07:48 On March 20, President Alberto Fernández told the nation in a televised address that all citizens would enter a mandatory quarantine period in an effort to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Though restrictions in some regions have now been loosened, many Argentines are today waking up this morning to their 100th day of lockdown. Here’s a look back at how the pandemic has changed our lives.

by Michael Soltys

CRISIS IN VENEZUELA

Virus forges rare accord among Venezuela's bitter rivals, Maduro and Guaidó

03-06-2020 16:04 One-page agreement, signed June 1 by Maduro's health minister and National Assembly representative, says both sides will work in coordination to find funds for fighting the coronavirus.

Coronavirus pandemic

14% of those infected with Covid-19 in Argentina are healthcare professionals

17-04-2020 11:59 Health Access Secretary Carla Vizzotti reveals 374 health workers have been infected with the novel coronavirus, with three fatalities among them.

Coronavirus pandemic

‘We want to come home,' say 2,200 Argentines stranded in Andorra

16-04-2020 15:39 Some 2,200 Argentines stranded in Andorra by the coronavirus, most of them temporary workers in ski resorts on the verge of running out of money, are demanding on social networks and the media that the government facilitate their return to the country.

Tech giant

Amazon threatens to halt key French centres after court ruling

15-04-2020 09:44 Online retailer Amazon warned Wednesday it may be forced to halt activity at its distribution centres and reduce service in France following a court ruling on measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus among its workers.