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Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:56:00 GMT
Chile starts applying 4th dose of COVID-19 vaccine
Chile Monday began applying the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to its population after Jan. 10 additional boosters were injected to people with comorbidities, health care staff and those over 55 years of age as infections due ...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:55:00 GMT
Argentine President already in Barbados for PM meeting
Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday landed in Barbados for a meeting Tuesday with Prime Minister Mia Mottley amid strong COVID-19 restrictions for reporters. It is the South American head of state's last stop of an in...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:54:00 GMT
Punta Arenas cruise season: 27 vessels on tours of Antarctica
The Punta Arenas port management company, in the extreme south of Chile, has offered a timetable of cruise vessel activities during the first two weeks of February. According to the program, eleven calls are scheduled in the tw...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:49:00 GMT
French and EU investigation into major fisheries incident that caused the death of tons of blue whiting
France's fisheries minister has called for an investigation after a major incident with tons of dead fish drifting off the country's Atlantic coast. Video footage filmed by environmental activists shows a mass of dead fish floating on the ...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:37:00 GMT
2021 was a good year for foreign direct investment in Chile, the highest since 2015
Foreign Direct Investment, FDI, in Chile during the twelve months of 2021 reached US$ 16,782 billion, the best amount since 2015, according to the Central bank which added it represented a 95% increase over 2020. Overall it was...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:33:00 GMT
First steam powered vessel to visit South Georgia, 140 years ago, depicted in commemorative coins
The government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands have launched new commemorative 50-pence coins marking the 140th anniversary of the first steam-powered vessel to visit the territory. Moltke is an important part of ...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:30:00 GMT
Boris Johnson sings Gloria Gaynor's "I will survive", as he hires his new director of communications
Cardiff-born Guto Harri, who was appointed as 10 Downing's new communications director, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson sang Gloria Gaynor's hit "I will survive" during the meeting in which he was hired.

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:29:00 GMT
Commonwealth and WHO agree to work on universal health care and resilient health systems
The Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Health Organization (WHO) signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) committing to strengthening their collaboration on a broad range of public health issues of particular co...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:24:00 GMT
Brazil reports first two cases of Omicron subvariant
Brazil's Fiocruz Institute Monday announced the first two cases of the BA.2 sublineage of the SARS-Cov-2 Omicron variant had been detected in the country: one in the State of Rio de Janeiro and the other in the State of Santa C...

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 09:21:00 GMT
Nicaragua decries El Salvador invaded its territorial waters
The Nicaraguan Government of President Daniel Ortega Monday decried military naval forces of El Salvador had violated its maritime spaces for reasons yet to be determined, since there is no bilateral territorial dispute between...



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