News of ezeiza

Infantino: Biennial World Cup would stop clubs hogging money

18-10-2021 15:54 Speaking during a visit to Buenos Aires, FIFA President Gianni Infantino claimed on Monday his controversial plans to hold a World Cup every two years will help spread the funds football generates away from a handful of super clubs.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina to scrap Covid entry quotas for foreign arrivals on October 19

06-10-2021 14:12 Argentina’s civil aviation agency announces that from October 19, Covid-19 limits on incoming passengers arriving from abroad by air will be scrapped.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina raises limit on returning residents to 1,700 places a day

07-08-2021 08:31 Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero confirms government will raise cap on arriving travellers from 1,000 to 1,700 a day. Tourists still banned from entering country.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina slaps 600-person daily limit on entries from overseas

27-06-2021 17:27 Government slaps 600-person limit on number of citizens and resident foreigners who can enter Argentina each day, as from Monday.

Covid-19 pandemic

Spot-checks show 38% of arrivals not complying with Covid-19 quarantine

21-06-2021 16:44 Thirty-eight percent of individuals who have recently entered Argentina are failing to comply with mandatory Covid-19 quarantine restrictions, says National Directorate of Migration.

Coronavirus pandemic

Argentina takes delivery of 1.65 million Covid-19 vaccines

24-05-2021 22:18 Government says more than 1.65 million vaccine doses have arrived over the past two days, including just over one million AstraZeneca shots.

Coronavirus pandemic

Man arrested after faking Covid test to fly from Miami to Ezeiza

03-05-2021 21:45 Unidentified 29-year-old arrested by immigration authorities after falsifying Covid test result to fly from Miami to Buenos Aires. Young man, who had in fact tested positive, could face more than three years behind bars for putting the lives of passengers and crew at risk.

Coronavirus pandemic

Shipment of 900,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses arrives in Argentina

26-02-2021 01:35 Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, Foreign Minister Felipe Solá and China's Ambassador to Argentina Zou Xiaol were on runway to witness vaccine flight’s arrival.

COVID -19 VACCINE

Covid vaccinations set to start after Sputnik touches down

26-12-2020 08:54 Government hails ‘mission to Moscow’ and says mass immunisation plan is imminent, as Aerolíneas Argentinas plane completes round-trip to Russia, bringing home 300,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine.

Diego Armando Maradona (1960-2020)

Billionaire Eurnekian vows to build Maradona statue at Ezeiza

28-11-2020 07:15 Billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian is preparing to fulfil an old promise to Maradona by erecting a statue of the late player at Ezeiza international airport.

TRAVEL & TOURISM

Buenos Aires to re-open for national and international tourism

24-11-2020 21:59 City Hall announces it will allow arrivals via airports, ports, bus, train and private vehicles, starting next month. Visitors will require a Covid-19 test and will only need to isolate if it comes back positive.

Coronavirus pandemic

Virus crisis forces distance learning on Argentina's student doctors

10-09-2020 08:42 Thousands of students from the faculty of medicine at the University of Buenos Aires have been studying virtually since educational institutions were shut down in Argentina in March.

KIRCHNERITE TYCOON

Lázaro Báez granted house arrest – but protests keep him behind bars

08-09-2020 16:50 Kirchnerite businessman Lázaro Báez, behind bars for more than four years over corruption and money-laundering allegations, granted house arrest. But residents at the gated community at which he is due to reside block access to his property.

Coronavirus pandemic

Staff at Ezeiza Hospital holds their breath and hope amid Covid-19 surge

08-07-2020 11:42 With Winter approaching and tight restrictions back in place in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, doctors and nurses at Hospital de Ezeiza hope the Covid-19 cure of curve flattens before overflowing becomes an issue.

100 DAYS OF QUARANTINE

100 days of quarantine

27-06-2020 07:48 On March 20, President Alberto Fernández told the nation in a televised address that all citizens would enter a mandatory quarantine period in an effort to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Though restrictions in some regions have now been loosened, many Argentines are today waking up this morning to their 100th day of lockdown. Here’s a look back at how the pandemic has changed our lives.

by Michael Soltys

BLOOMBERG

Argentina plans to resume foreign flights as soon as mid-August

10-06-2020 19:37 Government is looking to authorise flights to global destinations with a maximum passenger capacity of 70%, as soon as mid-August.

Coronavirus pandemic

UK government confirms 2 charter flights for Brits stranded in Argentina

29-04-2020 01:19 Around 320 British travellers currently stranded in Argentina will be able to return home on two flights, scheduled for May 7 and 12, departing Buenos Aires Ezeiza International Airport.

Global uncertainty

Almost 500 French tourists struck in Argentina await repatriation

03-04-2020 20:07 French tourists who have been stranded in Argentina since commercial flights were suspended are scheduled to take a humanitarian flight home home on Saturday – a return trip that for many has become an ordeal.

Covid-19 in LatAm

Argentina, Colombia to isolate travellers from coronavirus-hit nations

11-03-2020 12:57 Argentina and Colombia on Wednesday announced that travellers from the countries worst-affected by the new coronavirus would be isolated to protect the wider population.

Coronavirus outbreak

Porteño panic: Masks fly off shelves in Argentina amid coronavirus fear

02-03-2020 20:56 Amid fears of coronavirus, Argentines race to the pharmacy to buy face masks, despite there having yet to be a confirmed case in the country.

by Jennifer Heiman

Coronavirus Outbreak

Brazil confirms case of coronavirus; Argentina takes precautions

26-02-2020 13:29 Argentina has begun implementing precautionary measures to fight the spread of coronavirus, after Brazil confirms Latin America's first case of the disease and the number of confirmed cases in Italy continues to grow.

BREAKING NEWS

Evo Morales has landed in Argentina seeking asylum, confirms government

12-12-2019 11:06 Former Bolivian president Evo Morales joins his two children in Argentina. He is coming "to stay" as a refugee, says Foreign Minister Felipe Solá