Tag: Argentina
Argentina: mandatory Covid vaccination law in parliament
A bill has been introduced in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies to mandate vaccination against Covid-19 for all residents of the country. More...
Preprint: Infectivity and immune escape of the new coronavirus variant of interest C.37 Lambda
“We also observed that the spike protein of the Lambda variant presented increased infectivity when compared with the spike protein of the Alpha and Gamma variants, both of them with reported increased infectivity and transmissibility. More...
Preprint: The emergence of Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus variant Lambda C.37 in South America
We report the emergence of a novel lineage of SARS-CoV-2 in South America, termed C.37. More...
Argentina: coronavirus death toll hits 95,000 as Delta cases fly in
The Argentine Health Ministry confirmed Friday that two new Covid-19 cases with the Delta variant had been detected by migration officials, as Argentina’s death toll reached 95,000. More...
Argentina judge orders chlorine dioxide be given to coronavirus patient
“An Argentine judge has compelled a private clinic to administer chlorine dioxide, used as a powerful disinfectant, to a coronavirus patient in a case medical doctors have labelled “a scandal.” More...
China finds coronavirus on meat packaging from Brazil, Bolivia, New Zealand and Argentina
The Chinese city of Jinan said over the weekend it had found coronavirus on beef and tripe and their packaging from Brazil, Bolivia and New Zealand, while two other provincial capitals detected it on packaging on pork from Argentina,