News of public sector

220,000 registered jobs lost in 2020, concludes study

15-03-2021 15:52 A study by the Ecolatina consultancy firm has found that approximately 220,000 officially registered jobs were lost in Argentina last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and ongoing economic crisis.

Global pandemic

Waiving IP rights will not boost vaccine production, says pharma group

23-02-2021 15:00 Exempting Covid-19 vaccines from intellectual property rights will not speed up production or distribution of the jabs, a pharmaceutical industry association argued Tuesday.

Global Pandemic

Venezuela to begin Covid immunisation programme with Sputnik V

18-02-2021 12:44 President Nicolás Maduro announces healthcare workers, legislators, members of the Armed Forces and authorities will start to receive Covid-19 vaccines, with mass immunisation campaign is planned for April.

STRUCTURAL FLAWS

Poverty: we must go further to alleviate the effects of the pandemic

12-12-2020 09:00 The full inclusion of the most impoverished sectors of society demands a new generation of political and market activities for a fairer distribution of the capacity for social development.

by Agustín Salvia

Coronavirus pandemic

89% of Argentines live in households that received state assistance in April

16-06-2020 16:30 Around 40 million people live in households in which at least one individual received some form of state assistance during April, says report issued by Productive Development Ministry.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Students take over schools in Chubut amid crippling debt crisis

12-10-2019 09:56 Three months into a teachers strike over unpaid salaries and the shocking condition of public schools in the oil-rich province, students have had enough.

by Lucas Robinson

News of public sector

220,000 registered jobs lost in 2020, concludes study

Waiving IP rights will not boost vaccine production, says pharma group

Venezuela to begin Covid immunisation programme with Sputnik V

Poverty: we must go further to alleviate the effects of the pandemic

89% of Argentines live in households that received state assistance in April

Students take over schools in Chubut amid crippling debt crisis

Vizzotti warns Argentina is in 'worst moment' of coronavirus pandemic to date

Pharmaceutical firm produces first batch of Sputnik V vaccine in Argentina

Two years on, the working theory behind the sinking of ARA San Juan

'People do not seem to comprehend': Uruguay ICU staff decry pandemic laxity

PAHO warns of fake Covid-19 vaccines in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico

¿Google Argentina se olvidó de renovar google.com.ar? Un usuario aprovechó la oportunidad

Alberto Fernández, Putin y un gorila: el chiste que compartió el Presidente

Qué dijo Ángela Gentile sobre los 10 niños internados por Covid en el Hospital Gutiérrez

La Organización Panamericana de la Salud advirtió que hay ofertas de vacunas falsas en Argentina

Ante la suba de casos en La Matanza, los militares instalan su colosal hospital reubicable chino