News of outbreak

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Coronavirus: WHO tells world to brace for ‘potential pandemic’

24-02-2020 15:34 The World Health Organisation warned countries on Monday to be ready for a "potential pandemic" as the official death toll hit nearly 2,600 and infections in Europe, the Middle East and Asia triggered more drastic efforts to contain the new coronavirus.

REPATRIATION

Ukrainians hurl stones at China’s evacuees for fear of infection

21-02-2020 12:41 Several hundred residents in Ukraine's Poltava region protested to stop officials from quarantining the evacuees – including at least one Argentine – in their village because they feared becoming infected.

BLASPHEMY

Coronavirus: Supreme Ct tells judicial workers not to share mate, phones

20-02-2020 17:25 Despite there having been no diagnosis of the coronavirus on Argentine soil, statement to judicial employees discourages sharing of mate and mobile phones, among other measures, to prevent potential contagion.

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.

VIRUS OUTBREAK

Coronavirus outbreak: Tests in Argentina come back negative

18-02-2020 12:00 Scientists say tests on samples have come back negative. Argentines in Hubei province – the epicentre of the outbreak – ask government for help in leaving China.

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

Coronavirus death toll soars to 1,367 as China changes counting methods

13-02-2020 14:20 The number of deaths and new cases from China's COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak spiked dramatically on February 13 after authorities changed the way they count infections in a move that will likely fuel speculation that the severity of the outbreak has been under-reported.

Bloomberg

Big oil warned Trump team China trade deal was 'unrealistic'

13-02-2020 14:16 Industry leaders and advisers privately warned the Trump administration that the US will struggle to produce energy products that China has committed to buy in a new trade deal, raising doubts about one of the president’s signature economic achievements.

CORONAVIRUS FATALITIES

Coronavirus: all information we have on fatalities

05-02-2020 13:52 Since China reported the emergence of a new coronavirus in December, the SARS-like disease has infected more than 20,400 people and killed 425. The OMS declared a global health emergency to curb a worldwide plague soon after. Here’s what we know about the deaths.

CORONAVIRUS

Health officials play down risk of coronavirus hitting Argentina

31-01-2020 12:22 WHO declares a global emergency in response to the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, which has already caused at least 170 deaths. Health Minister affirms there is ‘no Argentine case’ yet.

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

WHO declares global virus emergency after deadly day for China

30-01-2020 18:34 UN health agency declared an international emergency over deadly coronavirus from China, a rarely used designation that could lead to improved international coordination in tackling disease.

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

35 Argentines on cruise face possible coronavirus threat

30-01-2020 14:47 Some 7,000 tourists are stranded onboard a ship 80km from Rome, after 54-year-old Chinese woman started showing symptoms of virus onboard.

CONORAVIRUS OUTBREAK

China locks down cities and transports to curb virus outbreak

23-01-2020 13:17 China locked down some 20 million people at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak on Thursday, banning planes and trains from leaving in an unprecedented move aimed at containing the Coronavirus.

BIRD FLU

Importing of Chilean turkey meat restricted after discovery of bird flu

11-09-2019 16:13 Imports to Argentina, Peru and Hong Kong restricted. Outbreak of a low-pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) virus is under control, the Chilean State Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) reported Wednesday.