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INTERVIEW

Stephen Walt: 'The pandemic has hurt the United States more than China'

Yesterdat 23:03 Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, says that Americans are sick of Trump. "If the rivalry between the US and China continues to intensify, South America will probably have to pick sides," he warns.

by Leandro Dario

Global pandemic

Ignoring outrage, Trump makes good on WHO pullout

Yesterdat 00:09 In late May, Trump said that China exerted "total control" over the WHO and accused the UN body of failing to implement reforms.

Global pandemic

Latin America & Caribbean surpasses three million Covid-19 cases

07-07-2020 23:58 The region is the current epicentre of the global pandemic, with 3,023,813 cases and nearly 140,000 deaths – almost half of them in Brazil, the hardest hit country in the world after the United States.

Global pandemic

Brazil President Bolsonaro confirms he has tested positive for Covid-19

07-07-2020 12:36 “I’m perfectly well,” Bolsonaro told CNN Brasil in a live interview, after announcing he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina registers record 75 deaths from Covid-19 in one day

07-07-2020 02:43 More than 80,000 people have now been infected with Covid-19 in Argentina. To date,1,582 fatalities have been recorded.

FOOTBALL

Epic Italia ‘90 continues to live long in the memory

04-07-2020 09:35 If Italia '90 was a grainy Fellini masterpiece, complex, tense and unafraid to lay bare humanity at its ugliest and, therefore, most real, four years later football had already crossed the line into pure Disney fantasy.

by Dan Edwards

Coronavirus pandemic

Cold, windswept and frozen, Buenos Aires returns to isolation

03-07-2020 03:37 On a chilly winter Wednesday, a lonesome Buenos Aires reverted to the first and most restrictive phase of the quarantine, in a renewed bid to halt the advance of Covid-19.

TRAVEL & TOURISM

Pandemic to deliver 'unprecedented' blow to tourism in Latin America, Caribbean

02-07-2020 03:21 Coronavirus pandemic to deliver "unprecedented blow" to tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Inter-American Development Bank warns.

Coronavirus pandemic

New phase of stricter lockdown begins in Buenos Aires

02-07-2020 00:17 Officials said Wednesday that the new measures were working well – the Buenos Aires City government said that on Wednesday 107,000 vehicles had used the capital's highways, a 33 percent drop from one week ago.

Global pandemic

Latin America, Caribbean may see virus deaths quadruple: experts

01-07-2020 17:39 Pan American Health Organisation warns virus death toll in Latin America and the Caribbean could top 400,000 by October without stricter public health measures.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

In midst of Covid chaos, Uruguay is getting it right

30-06-2020 12:50 Uruguay has become an oasis in the middle of a Covid-19 storm.

Global pandemic

EU reopens its borders to 14 nations but not to US tourists

30-06-2020 12:33 European Union to reopen borders to travellers from 14 countries, and possibly China soon, but most US citizens have been refused entry for at least another two weeks.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina's economy tanked in April as virus hit home

30-06-2020 12:33 Construction was the worst hit industry, plummeting 86.4%, with hotels and restaurants not far behind (down 85.6%). Manufacturing, down 34.4%, and business, which lost 27%, were also hard hit.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina records highest daily death toll yet from Covid-19

30-06-2020 00:23 Forty-eight people died from Covid-19 in Argentina over the last 24 hours, Health Ministry officials said Monday, lifting the total number of fatalities to 1,280.

EX-ARGENTINA MANAGER

Carlos Bilardo does not have Covid-19 and was misdiagnosed, says brother

30-06-2020 00:05 Argentina's 1986 World Cup winning coach was diagnosed with Covid-19 by mistake, his brother has revealed.

BLOOMBERG

Economy plunges more than expected after lockdown

29-06-2020 23:10 Economic activity fell 17.5% in April from the previous month, and 26.4% from a year ago, the government reported Monday.

Global pandemic

World hits 500,000 coronavirus milestone amid fears worst to come

28-06-2020 19:03 A reported tally Sunday from Johns Hopkins University researchers said the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic had reached 500,108.

Coronavirus pandemic

Carlos Bilardo, Argentina's 1986 World Cup coach, tests positive for coronavirus

28-06-2020 08:42 82-year-old, who suffers from a brain disorder and lives in a nursing home, tests positive for coronavirus but without displaying any symptoms, according to local media reports.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina surpasses 50,000 Covid-19 cases, new restrictions on way

26-06-2020 02:58 President Alberto Fernández set to announce return to strict lockdown in Buenos Aires metropolitan area, running from July 1 to 17.

WHAT NEXT?

Brazil, Argentina issue warnings as locust swarm crosses region

26-06-2020 00:16 Both the Argentine and Brazilian governments issue warnings as locust swam crosses border region.

Videoconference

Latin American leaders ask IMF, IDB, World Bank officials for support

25-06-2020 01:34 Presidents of nine Latin American nations ask International Monetary Fund, World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank for support during virus crisis, including restructuring of debt.

Global pandemic

IMF predicts Argentina's economy will slump 9.9% in 2020

25-06-2020 01:16 Warning of the biggest slump since the Great Depression, International Monetary Fund warns coronavirus crisis will sink global economy in 2020, predicts global collapse in GDP of 4.9%.

Coronavirus pandemic

Seven residents of City nursing home die of Covid-19

25-06-2020 00:42 Seven elderly residents at a nursing home in the capital have died after suffering "severe" symptoms of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the City government said Wednesday.

Russian president

Putin puts on display of military might ahead of key vote

24-06-2020 15:14 Vladimir Putin put Russia’s military strength on display Wednesday in a parade to mark the 75th anniversary of the World War II defeat of Nazi Germany, braving the coronavirus pandemic ahead of a referendum that may allow him to rule until 2036.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

In perennial economic crisis, Argentina faces worst year yet

23-06-2020 23:15 Some analysts are predicting a record contraction for Argentina's economy this year, with double-digit estimates of decline beginning to emerge.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

INDEC: Economy contracted by 5.4% in first quarter of 2020

23-06-2020 20:37 Unemployment rose to 10.4% in the first three months of the year, before the coronavirus lockdown kicked in, national statistics bureau reveals.

Global pandemic

Judge orders Brazil's Bolsonaro to use face mask in public

23-06-2020 15:33 Judge Renato Coelho Borelli said in his ruling that Bolsonaro “has exposed other people to the contagion of a disease that has caused national commotion.”

BA CITY & PROVINCE

Officials to tighten AMBA lockdown if curve continues to accelerate

23-06-2020 00:29 As officials report new daily high of confirmed cases, Fernández, Kicillof, Rodríguez Larreta meet at Olivos and agree to tighten restrictions in Buenos Aires metropolitan area if curve continues to accelerate.

Global pandemic

WHO chief: Coronavirus pandemic still accelerating

22-06-2020 17:42 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself, but "the lack of global solidarity and global leadership".

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina records 1,000th death from coronavirus

22-06-2020 09:08 More than 42,000 infections have now been recorded in Argentina. Officials to meet on Monday to discuss whether lockdown in Buenos Aires metropolitan area will continue.

Global pandemic

WHO warns of virus danger as Brazil cases hit one million

20-06-2020 08:18 Brazil, which has the second-highest number of infections and deaths after the United States, reported a one-day record of nearly 55,000 new infections, becoming the second country to pass one million cases.

HEALTH MINISTER

Ginés González García: Coronavirus peak may arrive in two weeks

19-06-2020 00:10 “We believe those weeks could be the weeks with the most cases,” says health minister in an interview, referring to the last week of June and first of July.

Coronavirus pandemic

Doctor tells President Fernández to limit contact, activity amid rise in cases

17-06-2020 18:37 The president's personal physician, Dr Federico Saavedra, says Peronist leader should stay at the Olvios presidential residence and avoid contact with others, amid rise in cases in Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Once a Covid role model, Chile now among the world’s worst

17-06-2020 15:40 Two months ago, Chile was admired for its surgical approach to the pandemic. Today it has among the world’s highest rates of per-capita infections and the country's health minister has been forced to resign.

Coronavirus pandemic

Ex-Buenos Aires Province governor María Eugenia Vidal tests positive for Covid-19

17-06-2020 00:18 Opposition Juntos por el Cambio politician María Eugenia Vidal becomes first high-profile name to test positive for novel coronavirus.

Coronavirus pandemic

89% of Argentines live in households that received state assistance in April

16-06-2020 16:30 Around 40 million people live in households in which at least one individual received some form of state assistance during April, says report issued by Productive Development Ministry.

Coronavirus pandemic

More than 30,000 coronavirus infections in Argentina

14-06-2020 09:31 Health Ministry officials confirmed another 1,531 cases of Covid-19 on Saturday night, taking Argentina past the 30,000-barrier since the pandemic began.

Global pandemic

Brazil virus deaths top 40,000, 1.5 million cases in Latin America

11-06-2020 22:02 The news came as the number of Latin American cases of the virus broke through the 1.5 million barrier, with more than 73,600 deaths now recorded in the region from Covid-19.

Periodismo puro / Interview

Rifat Atun: 'The coronavirus pandemic has increased inequality'

11-06-2020 17:48 Dr Rifat Atun, professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard, tells Jorge Fontevecchia in an interview that it will "probably take around 10 to 12 months before a vaccine is available globally."

Coronavirus pandemic

Number of coronavirus infections on the rise: 1,226 in last 24 hours

11-06-2020 02:18 Argentina's youngest victim yet, a seven-year-old girl, among 18 new fatalities, lifting death toll to 725. More than 26,000 have now been infected with virus in Argentina.

Global pandemic

OECD: Virus to slice at least 6% off world economy, 8.3% off Argentina's

10-06-2020 19:31 Government praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic by OECD, which predicts economy will shrink by 8.3% this year – or by 10.1% should a second wave arrive.

Global pandemic

In poor regions, easing virus lockdowns brings new risks

09-06-2020 13:37 Monday saw the biggest-ever one-day total of coronavirus cases: more than 136,000 cases, 75 percent of which were from 10 countries in the Americas and South Asia.

world

Global Covid-19 death toll reaches 400,000 as Pope Francis urges caution

07-06-2020 22:13 Worldwide, at least 6.9 million people have been infected by the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University, whose aggregated tally has become the main worldwide reference for monitoring the disease.

Global pandemic

Brazil expunges virus death toll as data befuddles experts

07-06-2020 22:01 Jair Bolsonaro's government stops publishing a running total of deaths and infections from Covid-19, claiming it is "not representative" of the country's current situation.

BLOOMBERG

It’s Covid code red in Latin America with no signs of peaking

07-06-2020 16:40 One of the most urbanised and unequal regions in the world with the slowest growth and a history of profound public mistrust of government, Latin America, with its 650 million inhabitants, is now a grim laboratory of viral pandemic.

Coronavirus pandemic

Mayor confirms Necochea 'babyshower' newborn has coronavirus

05-06-2020 15:25 Newborn tests positive for coronavirus, but is otherwise in good health, according to officials. Her mother was infected with Covid-19 after attending babyshower party in Necochea.

argentina

Lockdown extended until June 28, with 'two types of quarantine'

05-06-2020 03:15 President Fernández announces extension of lockdown for Buenos Aires metropolitan area and other areas of high Covid-19 contagion, with restrictions lifted and 'mandatory social distancing' introduced for most provinces.

Coronavirus pandemic

BA City government studying restart of ‘low-risk activities’

02-06-2020 19:33 City Hall considering the restart of 'low-risk' activities, but says decision depends on evolution of virus over next few days; Re-opening of some shops and approval for running at night under consideration.

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.

Coronavirus pandemic

More than 50 residents at two care homes test positive for Covid-19

01-06-2020 23:00 Forty individuals at a care home in Colegiales have been infected, along with another 12 at an institution in San Cristóbal.