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Global pandemic

Latin America ignores Europe and reopens, as virus peak nears

01-06-2020 22:44 Most South American countries have begun easing Covid-19 restrictions even as the region hurtles toward its viral peak, disregarding the example set by European nations that were battered earlier by the virus.

Coronavirus pandemic

14-year-old girl from Chaco becomes Argentina’s youngest Covid-19 victim

01-06-2020 15:07 14-year-old girl from Chaco Province, who reportedly suffered from auto-immune disease, becomes Argentina's youngest victim yet from global pandemic.

Global pandemic

Trump says United States is 'terminating' relationship with WHO

29-05-2020 18:12 Trump accuses Geneva-based WHO of being a "puppet" of China, and said the funding freeze would become permanent unless it made "substantive improvements."

Global pandemic

Latin America now accounts for roughly 40% of daily coronavirus deaths

28-05-2020 13:39 The statistics are chilling: Brazil has more cases than any country except the United States and some models forecast that deaths, currently at 25,000, could more than quadruple in coming months.

Global pandemic

Brazil leads daily global virus death toll for fifth straight day

27-05-2020 00:04 Brazil reported the highest daily Covid-19 death toll in the world Tuesday with 1,039 people killed, the fifth straight day the country has topped the list.

Global pandemic

WHO warns that first wave of Covid-19 pandemic is not over

26-05-2020 11:15 Top World Health Organisation official cautions that world is "right in the middle of the first wave globally," as cases in Brazil and India surge.

DEBT RESTRUCTURING

Argentina has been 'in default for months,' says Fernández

22-05-2020 02:16 "We have been in default for months, before December even we were in default," says Peronist leader.

Coronavirus pandemic

Officials confirm 474 new virus infections, new daily high for Argentina

21-05-2020 02:26 Total number of confirmed cases now stands at 9,283, death toll rises above 400.

Coronavirus pandemic

Government extends ban on unjust lay-offs for another two months

19-05-2020 13:08 In a bid to secure jobs amid the coronavirus crisis, Fernández administration extends existing ban on dismissals without "just cause" until July 31.

Global pandemic

Lockdown easing in Europe, but virus hits hard in South America, Africa

18-05-2020 12:29 Rising death tolls in Brazil, South Africa and other parts of the world show the worst is still to come for many countries.

Coronavirus pandemic

Infections spike in poverty-stricken Villa 31, worrying authorities

14-05-2020 15:55 Villa 31, one of Buenos Aires' poorest and most densely populated barrios, has shown a spike in the number of Covid-19 infections, worrying authorities hoping to ease the capital's two-month lockdown later this month.

FOOTBALL & CORONAVIRUS

Officials in Argentina studying protocols for return of football training

14-05-2020 11:46 Government begins studying health protocols for potential return of professional football training, with May 25 the earliest possible date; AFA don't expect games to restart until summer, in December or January. 

Global pandemic

Restart or re-stop? Across world, economies reopen but chaos abounds

11-05-2020 08:47 Worldwide, four million people have been reported infected and more than 280,000 have died, over 150,000 of them in Europe. Health experts believe all those numbers understate the true toll of the pandemic for different reasons.

BLOOMBERG - OPINION

For Argentina, coronavirus is a matter of life or debt

11-05-2020 08:00 So profound are Argentina’s self-made misfortunes that an imported contagion and the economic turmoil it has wrought have thrown out an unexpected lifeline.

by Mac Margolis

Argentine forward cleared

'I'm healed': Dybala gets all-clear after coronavirus

06-05-2020 15:02 Juventus star Paulo Dybala posts message declaring: "I can finally confirm that I am healed."

Coronavirus pandemic

More than 5,000 confirmed coronavirus infections in Argentina

06-05-2020 00:27 Health Ministry officials said that 134 new cases had been registered on Tuesday, lifting the total number of infections to 5,020. Death toll now stands at 264.

Coronavirus pandemic

After lockdown, a world of masks

01-05-2020 13:03 Dismissed as useless, now apparently indispensable, wearing a face mask as protection from the new coronavirus is now commonplace around the world as countries begin to emerge from lockdowns.

Coronavirus pandemic

As economies stagger, pressures grow to ease virus lockdowns

30-04-2020 08:33 The European economy shrank a record 3.8 percent in the first quarter as hotels, restaurants, construction sites and manufacturing were frozen by coronavirus shutdowns. It was the biggest drop in the eurozone since statistics began in 1995 and compares to a 4.8 percent contraction in the United States.

Coronavirus pandemic

WHO warns over virus immunity as global death toll tops 200,000

26-04-2020 09:19 As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing lockdowns imposed amid the pandemic, but fears of a surge in infections made even some outbreak-wounded businesses reluctant to reopen.

Until May 10

Government extends lockdown by two weeks to contain virus

26-04-2020 08:47 Metro areas with fewer people may return to normal activities if they meet five requirements, such as restricting movement to just half of each city’s population at any given time.