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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 10:10 UTC

Tag: COVID-19

  • Wednesday, February 21st 2024 - 10:23 UTC

    Uruguay: River travel surcharge to trigger legal challenges

    It's like charging only thieves for keeping the police operational, Colonia Express' lawyer argued

    Buquebús and Colonia Express, the two shipping companies providing regular passenger services between Argentina and Uruguay, announced this week that they planned to challenge President Luis Lacalle Pou's decree creating a US$ 2.56 surcharge for passengers arriving or leaving at the ports of Colonia and Montevideo.

  • Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

    Covid-19 cases on the rise in Sao Paulo and in the region

    It is possible to have both viruses at the same time: Covid-19 and dengue

    Authorities in the city of São Paulo have reported that the number of Covid-19 cases more than tripled between the first epidemiological week of 2024 (Dec. 31, 2023, to Jan. 6, 2024) and the sixth (Feb. 4 to 10) after growing from 881 detections to 3,443, according to the interactive panel of the Municipal Health Department (SMS).

  • Tuesday, January 30th 2024 - 10:36 UTC

    Covid 19: Sales of facemasks and alcohol gel on the rise in Argentina

    There is a considerable number of positive cases in the pediatric age group in Argentina

    Despite the ongoing economic crisis, a sharp increase in sales of facemasks (15%) and alcohol gel (10%) was reported amid a surge in Covid-19 detections, the Argentine Union of Pharmacists and Biochemists (SAFyB) said. In this scenario, federal health authorities have again recommended people update their vaccination scheme against the malady.

  • Friday, January 26th 2024 - 10:56 UTC

    Covid-19: Facemasks mandatory again at Bolivian schools

    Facemasks will be mandatory for pupils, teachers, and school staff when classes resume next week

    Bolivian health authorities will be requiring school pupils to wear facemasks upon returning to classes next week as part of a set of preventive measures taken given an increase in the number of cases of Covid-19, Ministers María Renée Castro (Health) and Édgar Pary (Education) announced in La Paz.

  • Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:12 UTC

    Uruguay's Society of Pediatrics advises against Covid-19 vax for kids

    According to Uruguay's Health Ministry (MSP), Covid-19 activity has remained at “intermediate-high levels” in recent weeks

    Uruguay's Society of Pediatrics Wednesday issued a statement in Montevideo advising against vaccinating children against COVID-19 and insisting on the convenience of other non-pharmacological measures to prevent the spread of the malady.

  • Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - 11:00 UTC

    New strain of Covid-19 detected in Brazil

    The fatal victim already had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

    Brazilian authorities Monday confirmed the detection of four cases of the JN 2.5 subvariant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in the state of Mato Grosso. The patients were reported to be all female and hospitalized in a serious condition. One of them even died. However, the Mato Grosso State Health Department said there was no reason to panic because at this point “it is not possible to say that the cause of death was COVID-19” since ”the patient already had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).”

  • Monday, January 22nd 2024 - 11:23 UTC

    Argentina's Health Ministry issues Covid-19 vax recommendation

    People under 50 with comorbidities and healthcare workers were included in the intermediate-risk group

    Argentina's Health Ministry issued Sunday a recommendation to patients people over 50 years of age and those at risk to get a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine given the increase in cases reported during the last few weeks. The drug “is essential to maintain adequate protection to prevent complications, hospitalizations, and deaths due to this disease,” the Ministry said in a statement.

  • Saturday, January 20th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Bolsonaro's Covid-19 vax card proven to be fake

    Bolsonaro has always claimed never to have taken a Covid-19 vaccine

    Brazilian authorities have determined that former President Jair Bolsonaro produced false certificates attesting to his vaccination against Covid-19 to enter the United States, it was reported this week.

  • Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:54 UTC

    Argentina reports more Covid-19 patients in ICU

    “The current issue is vaccination,” Dubin said

    Argentina's sanitary system is noticing an increase in the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs) with Covid-19 during the first weeks of January, it was reported Thursday in Buenos Aires. ICU specialist Arnaldo Dubin spoke to local media about “mainly elderly patients, with many comorbidities and an out-of-date vaccination schedule.”

  • Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:41 UTC

    Uruguayan homes for the elderly not fond of Covid-19 vax booster doses

    Vaccinated or not, people still get infected, they argued

    One day after Uruguay's Health Ministry announced a new Covid-19 vaccination campaign, a business guild bringing together homes for the elderly announced no booster doses would be encouraged on their part.