CORONAVIRUS LATIN AMERICA
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Social Issues
Oxfam: Pandemic sees rich get richer, poor get poorer in Latin America
Bogota, Jan 17 (EFE).- The wealth of Latin America’s billionaires has increased by 52% since the onset of the pandemic,…
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Latin America seeing lower-than-expected Delta variant case load – for now
By Patricia Nieto Mariño, Waldheim Garcia Montoya, Jorge Gil and Monica Martinez Santiago/Sao Paulo/Bogota/Lima, Sep 15 (EFE).- The highly contagious…
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IDB aims to ease liability concerns about Covid-19 vaccination
Washington, Mar 12 (efe-epa).- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has developed an instrument intended to provide Covid-19 vaccination liability protection…
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Pandemic spurs record increase in poverty in LatAm
Santiago, Mar 4 (efe-epa).- The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented increase in poverty in what was already the…
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Dozen LatAm countries lean on Pfizer, AstraZeneca for vaccine rollout
Madrid, Jan 28 (efe-epa).- The Covid-19 vaccines co-developed by two multinational pharmaceutical corporations – New York-based Pfizer and British-Swedish AstraZeneca…
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Coronavirus quarantines expose class divide in Latin America
Sao Paulo/Mexico City/Caracas/Bogota, Aug 28 (efe-epa).- Joseane Santos, a domestic worker, commutes more than two hours every weekday via public…
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Pandemic in Latin America triggers revolving door of health ministers
Sao Paulo, Jul 22 (efe-epa).- The spread of the coronavirus in Latin America has placed mounting pressure on the region’s…
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UN: Pandemic will trigger even greater poverty, inequality in Latin America
By Mario Villar United Nations, Jul 9 (efe-epa).- The pandemic will trigger a further increase in already high levels of…
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Pandemic outpaces testing capacity in LatAm
By Diana Marcela Tinjaca Bogota, Jul 3 (efe-epa). – Test, trace and isolate. That has been the mantra of the…
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Samper: Latin America facing pandemic without strong integration mechanisms
By Eduardo Davis Brasilia, May 20 (efe-epa).- Latin America has become a new focal point of the coronavirus pandemic at…
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