For the first time since the start of the pandemic, in March 2020, Israel today opens its borders to tourists vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 in the hope of refloating a key sector for the country, and in particular for Jerusalem, where more than 30% of its economy depends on foreign tourism. The tourist must […]
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The world exceeds 5 million deaths from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins
Updated on 11/01/2021 08:08 am The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed 5 million on Monday, with the United States, Brazil and India the hardest hit countries, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University. In total, more than 246 million infections have been registered since the pandemic began in early 2020. The United […]
Crisis in US daycare affects the entire economy
When Bryan Kang’s son was born in July, the occupational therapist and his wife, a teacher, began looking day care centers in Los Angeles. They called eight. Some had no vacancies for months, others no longer received calls or did not respond. Unable to find daycare, Kang had to find a way to work from […]
The quiet work of the creators of the COVID-19 vaccine for animals
The COVID-19 This month ended the life of Ekundu, a lion who caught the virus in the zoo where he lived in Hawaii (USA) and perhaps could have been saved with a vaccine, still in the experimental phase, specifically designed to animals and much less known than human vaccines. “When we learned of the first […]
These are the nine crimes for which Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is accused
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is going through a difficult week after the Senate investigative commission asked that he be charged with an alleged “mismanagement” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, in the final report they presented, the controversial Bolsonaro was questioned with nine crimes that he would have committed. This was approved last Tuesday, […]
OECD: COVID-19 threatens to lose 20-year progress in welfare in Latin America
Many of the improvements in the well-being of the population of the most developed countries in Latin America, which had already slowed down since the middle of the last decade, run the risk of being lost with the pandemic, indicates the OECD in a report. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) looks at […]
WHO calls for US $ 23.4 billion to “prevent another five million deaths from COVID”
The World Health Organization (WHO) asked the international community to contribute US $ 23.4 billion to its program to distribute vaccines and other tools against the COVID-19, a game with which, he affirmed, the death of up to five million people can be avoided. That funding, which the WHO estimates its ACT Accelerator (acronym for […]
Chilean Parliament advances in the discussion of controversial fourth retirement of pension funds
The controversial bill that seeks to allow a fourth withdrawal of 10% of the Pension funds on Chile advanced this Tuesday in Parliament involved in controversies and despite the frontal rejections of the Government. The initiative, presented by opposition parliamentarians, received the green light in the Senate Constitution Committee, with 3 votes in favor and […]
US extends navigation conditions on COVID-19 cruises until January
The health authorities of USA extended until January 15 the conditions for traveling on cruise ships established during the pandemic of the COVID-19 from ports of the country, which expired next Monday, November 1. In this way, the so-called Conditions for Navigation Ordinance (CSO), issued in October 2020, which provides instructions for travel during the […]
UNWTO and Civil Aviation join forces to promote safe recovery of tourism
Updated on 10/25/2021 04:15 pm The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) They will strengthen collaboration to promote both the recovery of travel and tourism and its transformation into a more sustainable and resilient model. In a statement, the UNWTO reported that the new alliance between the two organizations, signed […]