A total of US $ 100 billion of the total sum of the Special drawing rights (DEG) issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to face the health crisis of the pandemic of COVID-19, will be returned to vulnerable countries. This amount is part of the global amount of 650,000 million dollars of the DEG […]
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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 […]
Produces: sales in the retail sector increased by 20.9% compared to pre-pandemic levels
The Ministry of Production (Produce) announced that during August of this year the retail sales of the retail sector reached the S / 3,924 million in the current year 2021. This means an increase in 20,9% compared to August 2019, a year without a pandemic. José Incio Sánchez, head of Produce, highlighted that these results […]
COVID-19: European Union recommends allowing entry of tourists from Peru
The Council of the European Union on Friday added Argentina, Colombia, Peru and Namibia to its list of safe countries from the epidemiological point of view, whose citizens can travel to the EU for pleasure and not only for essential reasons, after the pandemic for COVID-19. The recommendation of the Council of the EU -institution […]
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 […]
WHO estimates that the pandemic is “far from the end” and maintains a global emergency
Updated 10/26/2021 02:06 pm The Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) for COVID-19 has concluded in its last meeting that the pandemic is still “far from its end”, Which is why it has chosen to maintain the international emergency against the coronavirus, declared on January 30, 2020. As reported by the WHO, the […]
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 […]