With Hollywood productions suspended, sports stadiums empty and bars closed, California is the state with the most applications for unemployment benefits, among the 17 million Americans who lost their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Here the faces of this crisis in California. Films At any other time, the show would have to go on. […]
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Fitur celebrates a record edition in the midst of the tourism sector taking off after the pandemic
Madrid starting tomorrow, Wednesday, it will host the 44th edition of the tourism fair Fitur, the first in the world in the sector by number of attendees and participants, and which this year anticipates record numbers in the midst of the industry’s takeoff after the pandemic. On this occasion, the Ifema exhibition center dedicates nine […]
Poverty and repression: North Korean defector denounces what the pandemic meant in his country
Mr. Kim is one of the few North Koreans who, after fleeing his country, can tell what happened there during the pandemic. His story sheds light on the greater repression and the economic and nutritional deterioration that the covid and that human rights organizations denounce. The coronavirus restrictions began in his border province of South […]
WHO: “future generations would not forgive” if a treaty against pandemics is not achieved
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO)Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today acknowledged difficulties in negotiating a global treaty for pandemic preparedness, and warned member countries that “future generations would not forgive” if it was not achieved. “I am concerned that Member States are not fulfilling their commitments, time is ticking and there are still […]
Chile will host a meeting of Latin American education ministers on the post-pandemic
Chili will host on January 25 and 26 the extraordinary meeting of ministers of Education of Latin America and the Caribbean, ‘Ministerial of Education: Santiago 2024’which will seek to propose concrete actions to overcome the educational crisis left by the pandemic in the region. “Efforts must be redoubled so that educational recovery and transformation are […]
Health spending in the OECD will rise to 11.8% of GDP in 2040 with lesson from covid
The weight of health spending in the countries of the OECD will continue to grow, as has been the case for decades and, if we add to this trend the lessons of the crisis of the covid To make the system more resistant, it will reach 11.2% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 2040. […]
Bolivia reports 80% increase in covid cases in the first days of the year
Bolivia reported this Sunday an 80% increase in cases of the covid-19 compared to the last week of 2023, and which is part of the “outbreak” which began at the end of December. The Minister of Health, María Renée Castro, pointed out that according to information “preliminary” 3,473 cases of the disease were recorded, which […]
Hydroxychloroquine, responsible for some 17,000 premature deaths in six countries
The hydroxychloroquine which was prescribed in patients hospitalized with covid during the first wave of virusdespite the low level of evidence, could have caused almost 17,000 premature deaths in six countries analyzed in a scientific study, about 2,000 in the case of Spain. This is revealed by a study published today in the journal Biomedicine […]
USA: Life expectancy increases, but is lower than before the pandemic
The life expectancy of Americans increased by more than a year last year, but is still much lower than it was before the pandemic of COVID-19. The increase recorded in 2022 was mainly due to the decline of the pandemic, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday. But even […]
Peruvian economy grew 0% in the last 12 months
For the fifth consecutive month, the national gross domestic product (GDP) closed in red after registering a drop of 1.29% in September given the lower dynamism of the construction and manufacturing sectors, which had a decline of 9.41% and 9.30%, respectively, these two sectors being the ones that absorb the most labor, according to official […]