Pandemic reduces life expectancy by three years in Latin America
Plataforma - Macau - 12/07/2022
Whole of portuguese health system 'close to limit' due to pandemic
Lusa - Portugal - 18/01/2021
Portugal’s minister of health, Marta Temido, has warned that the country’s entire health system, including the National Health Service (SNS), private and third sectors and all back office structures, is close to its limit as it struggles to cope with a surge in…
Impasse over WHO virus mission 'not just a visa issue': China
AFP - International - 06/01/2021
Delays to a long-planned mission by WHO experts to China to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic are “not just a visa issue”, Beijing said Wednesday.
A year after the outbreak started, international health experts were expected to arrive in China…
With The Pandemic, almost Half of The Workers Stopped
Folha de S. Paulo - Brazil - 30/12/2020
For the first time, the number of inactive Brazilians has exceeded 40%
For the first time, the number of inactive Brazilians, meaning, those without a job and not currently looking for one, has exceeded the 40% mark. The highest index was spotted in the quarters that…
Covid-19 cases top 80 million worldwide
AFP - International - 27/12/2020
More than 80 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been detected worldwide since the pandemic began a year ago and 1.76 million deaths, according to an AFP tally based on official figures at 0800 GMT Sunday.
In total, 80,145,185 cases and 1,756,060 deaths have been…
Brazil bans flights from the UK after discovery of new coronavirus mutation
Folha de S.Paulo - Brazil - 24/12/2020
Ordinance also requires testing for unaccompanied children over 2 and under 12 on international flights.
After the decision of more than 40 countries, the Brazilian government decided this Wednesday (23) to temporarily prohibit international flights that originate or pass…
Brazilian study reinforces that SARS-CoV-2 reinfection is possible and can be serious
Istoé - Brazil - 24/12/2020
Asymptomatic and even mild cases of Covid-19 do not offer immunization against the disease, according to a new study by Fiocruz released on Wednesday.
Published in the Social Science Research Network, the work reinforces the idea that reinfection by SARS-Cov-2 is possible…
One third of the world's population does not receive public support to fight a pandemic
TSF - Portugal - 15/12/2020
In total, € 9.62 billion was spent worldwide this year to deal with the consequences of the coronavirus.
Some 2.7 billion people, more than a third of the world’s population, have received no public support to deal with the effects of the pandemic, according to an…
PAHO urges countries not to demand Covid-19 negative tests to travelers
AFP - International - 26/11/2020
On wednesday, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged countries not to require Covid-19 tests on travelers, insisting that these tests give “a false sense of security.”
“PAHO does not recommend relying on laboratory tests for travelers,”…
New Normal: the abnormality…
Plataforma - Portugal - 23/11/2020
They ask us to get used to a “new normal”. In my mind, new and normal never married. What is new – good or bad – is hardly normal. Maybe it was better to ask us to get used to living in abnormality. Better and more real.
This comes with regard to some…
Covid-19: Italian study raices suspicions about the birthplace of the virus
Plataforma - Macau - 21/11/2020
A new study by the Italian National Cancer Institute revealed data that can counter the origin of the virus in Wuhan.
WHO had previously admitted that the virus could have circulated silently around the world until it was detected in Wuhan. Now, with the new study by the…
