The World Health Organization (WHO) has modified its recommendations on vaccines for COVID-19, suggesting that high-risk populations receive an additional dose 12 months after their last booster. The health agency defined older adults as high-risk populations, as well as younger people with other significant risk factors. For this group, the agency recommends an additional shot […]
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Latin America sees return of Chinese loans after pause due to COVID
Latin America is becoming a destination for Chinese loans again, after the pandemic of covid-19 lead to a suspension of such agreements in a region that has received about $136 billion in debt from state-owned banks in the Asian giant. Brazil, Barbados and Guyana last year received a total of $813 million of the China […]
Chilean economy falls in the fourth quarter, but advances 2.4% in all of 2022: Central Bank
The Chilean economy registered a fall in the fourth quarter amid an expected adjustment after the rapid recovery from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19caused by a restrictive monetary policy to contain inflationary pressure. According to data from the Central Bank released on Monday, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it yielded 2.3% between October […]
WHO, advisers urge China to release all COVID data after new investigation
The advisors of the World Health Organization urged on Saturday China to make public all the information related to the origin of the pandemic COVID-19 after new findings were briefly shared in an international database used to track pathogens. Earlier this year, Chinese scientists briefly uploaded new SARS-CoV-2 virus sequences to the GISAID database, as […]
The pandemic 3 years later: did COVID-19 win?
On the third anniversary of the pandemic of COVID-19, the coronavirus continues to spread and the death toll is approaching 7 million worldwide. Nonetheless, most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines. It seems the virus is here to stay, along with the threat of […]
Twist in history? COVID-19 would have originated in animals and not in a laboratory
International scientists examining hitherto inaccessible genetic data from samples collected at a market in Chinanear where the first human cases of COVID-19reported that they found indications that the pandemic originated in animals, not in a laboratory. Other experts have not yet verified the analysis, which has also not appeared in peer-reviewed publications so far. It […]
COVID could become a seasonal flu-like threat this year
The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated this Friday that it hopes to lower its maximum alert level for COVID-19 this year, estimating that the epidemic could soon pose a threat similar to that of seasonal flu. “We have reached a point where we can look at COVID-19 in the same way we look at the […]
The president of Ecuador tests positive for COVID-19 and will exercise by teleworking
President Ecuadorianthe conservative William Lassotested positive for COVID-19for which reason he will maintain medical isolation and carry out his functions by teleworking, reported the General Secretariat for Communication. “The president is in good health and, according to medical indications, will complete four days of isolation” due to COVID-19, added the source. Furthermore, he reported that […]
Li Qiang becomes China’s premier with a mission to revive the economy
Li Qiang, former head of the Shanghai Communist Party, took office as premier of Shanghai on Saturday. Chinathe number 2 position in the country, with which the close ally of the president Xi Jinping becomes in charge of reactivating an economy battered by three years of restrictions COVID-19. Considered a pragmatic and pro-business man, Li, […]
Is the fear of inflation over? For and against rigid inflation
Two years after inflation began its rapid rise, investors, economists and policymakers remain divided on the path forward. Yes, headline inflation in major developed economies has receded from multi-decade highs, the inflationary impulses of COVID-19, such as the skyrocketing prices of used cars and semiconductors, are fading, and the gas crisis in Europe has subsided. […]