Santiago de Chile, March 22 (RHC)-- The executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Barcena, said that COVID-19 would directly impact the already weakened world economy. She claims increasing poverty in the region for 35 million people, as well as endangering an essential global public good: human health.... More
Brasilia, March 22 (RHC)-- Brazil’s federal judge Raquel Soares Chiarelli ordered the Armed Forces Hospital (HFA) to present the list of people who turned out to be COVID-19 positives, among whom is President Jair Bolsonaro. This order responds to the hospital's refusal to release data to the Federal District Health Department.... More
Beijing, March 22 (RHC)-- China’s Defense Minister announced that Chinese scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine that has already been tested on a group of infected monkeys, which responded effectively and were immune.... More
Havana, March 22 (PL)-- The Cuban Ministry of Public Health,( MINSAP) reported on Sunday the diagnosis of 10 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the number to 35.... More
Caracas, March 22 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has reiterated that the country has all the necessary medicines for the treatment required by the new COVID-19 coronavirus, thanks to the support given by the United Nations health system.... More
La Paz, March 22 (RHC)-- Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) Saturday postponed elections scheduled for May 3rd as the de-facto government imposes nationwide restrictions in an attempt to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.... More
Geneva, March 22 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the reduction of COVID-19 cases in the Chinese city of Wuhan “provides hope for the rest of the world.” The comments come as the virus takes a terrible toll in Europe.... More
Ciego de Avila, March 22 (RHC)-- Tourists vacationing in the Jardines del Rey hotels were returning to their respective countries Sunday morning from the international airport of Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of central Cuba.... More
Rome, March 22 (RHC)-- The National Coordinator of Cubans Living in Italy (CONACI) welcomed on Sunday the arrival of a brigade of Cuban health workers to help fight the COVID-19 in that European nation.... More
Havana, March 22 (RHC)-- The Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) confirmed four new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, for a total of 25 in the country.... More
Havana, March 21 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez announced that his country has sent a medical brigade to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica, a Caribbean country that has been going through a severe economic and political crisis for the past years.... More
Havana, March 21 (RHC)-- Bruno Rodríguez, Minister of Foreign Affairs, reported on Twitter that the Cuban embassies in Guyana and Haiti are taking steps to ensure the safe return to the island of the Cuban citizens who remain in those countries.... More
Tehran, March 21 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif accused the U.S. of taking its policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran to a “new level of inhumanity” by imposing new sanctions on Iran as it struggles to cope with a huge surge of COVID-19 cases.... More
Washington, March 21 (RHC)-- Thousands of U.S. troops and military staff based in Europe have been ordered into self-isolation after at least 35 of them tested positive for COVID-19, further complicating Washington’s power projection across the Atlantic.... More
Geneva, March 21 (RHC)-- Reuters reports that U.S. labs have run only 60,000 coronavirus tests since late January when the first case was detected in the U.S. — compared to South Korea, which has tested nearly 300,000 people in the same time period. ... More
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