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LAST SEVEN DAYS

What we learned this week: August 1 to August 8

08-08-2020 09:31 Stories that caught our eye over the last seven days in Argentina

Coping with the pandemic

Pandemic tough on Argentina's overworked care-givers

08-08-2020 09:01 Many healthcare professionals were struggling even before the virus crisis, which for most has led to even tougher times on the job.

BEIRUT EXPLOSION

Negligence probed in deadly Beirut blast amid public anger

05-08-2020 22:29 Investigators probing deadly blast that ripped across Beirut focus on possible negligence in the storage of tons of a highly explosive fertiliser in a waterfront warehouse.

Coronavirus pandemic

Covid-19 case spike puts Argentina's health system on alert

23-07-2020 15:39 Since Monday, Argentina has been recording around a hundred deaths daily from Covid-19, almost double the average of the previous week.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Covid-19 surge lifts number of infections to 94,060

11-07-2020 07:50 Argentina records its highest daily toll yet of 3,367 new cases. Death toll rises to 1,774.

Global pandemic

WHO warns of pressure on Latin American health systems

02-06-2020 15:21 Four of the 10 countries showing the greatest number of new Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours were in Latin America, the World Health Organisation's emergencies director Michael Ryan said.

GLOBAL PANDEMIC

‘I chose to stay’ – Argentine med student details life on Spain’s Covid-19 frontline

30-05-2020 10:35 When the coronavirus pandemic hit, third-year med student Celeste Basaez, on residency in Barcelona, had a choice: head home or join her hospital’s fight on the frontlines against Covid-19.

by James Francis Whitehead

Coronavirus pandemic

Anguish in Brazil's ICU units overwhelmed by Covid-19

24-04-2020 13:29 Doctors sign as many death certificates as release forms in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Emilio Ribas, the state's first public hospital to be pushed to breaking point by the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus pandemic

Angry relatives complain after virus sweeps through City retirement home

22-04-2020 14:39 At least 19 elderly people were hospitalised via ambulance on Tuesday night from a nursing home in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos Aires.

Pregnancies at risk

Virus disrupts pregnancy plans, raises anxiety and questions

31-03-2020 19:06 Many pregnant women fear giving birth with no loved ones by their side in the United States. Others worry about getting sick with Covid-19 and not being able to hold their newborns, adding to the overall anxiety and uncertainty.

Coronavirus pandemic

City's emergency services ask porteños to stay at home

19-03-2020 14:55 Head of capital's emergency services asks porteños to stay at home and avoid social contact, as they struggle to deal with coronavirus outbreak.

Coronavirus Pandemic

Argentina to build 8 emergency hospitals to help fight coronavirus, says Fernández

18-03-2020 13:28 “We are going to work tirelessly to complete the projects quickly,” the president promised after announcing multi-million-peso measures to tackle the pandemic.

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Weather, protests hamper Ukraine's Coronavirus quarantine bid

20-02-2020 13:46 Ukraine's effort to evacuate more than 70 people from China, including a number of Argentines, due to the outbreak of the new COVID-19 virus delayed.

Healthcare

Protests from medical residents in Buenos Aires force annulment of law

09-12-2019 07:00 After five day of protests against what some branded a “regressive” law to regulate working conditions, residents get buy-in from City lawmakers to create new legislation together.

by Carly Graf