News of lockdown

Judge Casanello sends 'Olivosgate' probe to San Isidro

04-09-2021 09:57 Investigation into birthday party at Olivos presidential residence last year will be picked up by federal courts in San Isidro. President Alberto Fernández among the accused.

Alberto Fernández seeks solution to Olivos party legal woes

27-08-2021 21:08 President offers up two months of his salary as fine as prosecutor formally accuses him of violating his own Covid lockdown rules.

Fernández under fire for Olivos birthday party during lockdown

13-08-2021 21:18 President offers mea culpa after photo emerges showing illegal birthday party for First Lady Fabiola Yáñez took place at presidential residence last year during strict coronavirus lockdown.

Sydney residents banned from leaving city as coronavirus cluster grows

23-06-2021 00:35 More than 30 people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 since a cluster emerged in Sydney last week, the latest in a string of Australian flare-ups.

Infection surge continues as end of nine-day lockdown nears

28-05-2021 22:37 Health Ministry confirms 39,207 new cases over past 24 hours, along with 560 fatalities. New poll shows more than half of Argentines disapprove of government’s handling of Covid crisis.

Chile rolls out mobility pass for the vaccinated

27-05-2021 14:03 People in Chile who have received both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine could from Wednesday obtain a pass to move about more freely, but the move has been criticised by health professionals given the persistently high infection rate.

Reports: Government set to declare nine-day lockdown amid Covid surge

20-05-2021 18:04 Multiple local news outlets report President Alberto Fernández will announce a nine-day nationwide lockdown in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area until May 31; Health Ministry confirms 35,884 infections over last 24 hours.

The P1 or 'Brazilian' variant: what we know about new Covid strain

19-04-2021 11:58 Here's what we know about The "Brazil variant" — a more contagious mutation of the coronavirus that emerged in the Amazon late last year.

Brazil's Bolsonaro snubs new lockdown calls

08-04-2021 11:44 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro doubled down on his opposition to lockdown measures to contain Covid-19 Wednesday, as experts warned a largescale stay-at-home was "absolutely necessary" to slow a deadly surge of the coronavirus.

Buenos Aires bankers’ return to office imperiled by Covid surge

07-04-2021 17:07 Several of Argentina’s largest banks succeeded at getting more employees back to headquarters as the virus toll abated in South America’s second-biggest economy. A rising case count now puts that path into question.

Poverty is our worst expense

03-04-2021 09:03 This relentlessly surging poverty worries all of us and naturally worries the government too – or does it?

Borders closed and new restrictions: Latin America passes 25 million infections

03-04-2021 08:07 Regions across South America try to put the brakes on surging coronavirus cases – Chile closes all its borders for entire month of April; Bolivia shutters frontier with Brazil; Peru enters Easter lockdown.

IMF warns surging virus threatens to curb Latin America rebound

08-02-2021 22:16 Latin America’s economic recovery faces risks from failure to stop the spread of the coronavirus and the need for new lockdown measures, says the IMF.

UK faces up to painful lessons after 100,000 Covid deaths

30-01-2021 09:20 Britain this week became the first European country to pass 100,000 Covid deaths, in a grim milestone nearly one year since its first case of the disease.

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.

The first year of the rest of a presidency

12-12-2020 09:08 A bigger game-changer than coronavirus could hardly be imagined, but Argentina remains very much the same country behind the face-masks.

The peso's got a fever and the only prescription is more dollars

24-10-2020 08:08 Whereas classical economic theory suggests that markets create efficient prices through a cumulative aggregation of information, thus allowing market players to accede to perfect information, the current situation in the City Porteña is one of absolute price opacity.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Murders surge in Brazil despite pandemic

20-10-2020 08:52 Number of murders and other violent deaths in Brazil increased 7.1% in first half of the year, despite lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic.