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City Hall loosens Covid restrictions on gatherings, outdoor events

09-07-2021 01:41 Buenos Aires City government authorises meetings of up to 20 people outdoors and says offices can now be at 30% capacity. Starting next month, cultural events will be allowed, with a 1,000-person cap on attendance.

City Hall loosens Covid-19 restrictions – the measures

25-06-2021 03:21 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta orders slight relaxation in restrictions for restaurants and bars, theatres, gyms

Fernández finishes drafting Covid ‘superpowers’ bill

08-05-2021 00:33 President responds to unfavourable Supreme Court ruling with strong criticism and stepping up legislative push to clarify enforcement of Covid-19 measures.

Courting deadlock

08-05-2021 00:28 The whole idea of the separation of powers is to achieve a constructive division of labour, not a collision course in which the component forces cancel each out.

Supreme Court to rule on education dispute ‘towards end of week’

26-04-2021 19:20 Argentina's highest court expected to decide on the row over in-person classes between the National and Buenos Aires City governments “towards the end of the week,” according to City Hall sources.

City Hall, Casa Rosada await Supreme Court ruling on in-person classes

24-04-2021 00:38 Court declares itself "competent" to take on the issue and will settle the education row between the Buenos Aires City government and the national government.

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

21-04-2021 17:03 Health Minister Carla Vizzotti warned Wednesday that Argentina is in "the worst moment" of the coronavirus pandemic to date and asked citizens to take extra care amid Covid-19 second wave surge.

City Hall tells schools to carry on with classes, despite new court ruling

20-04-2021 23:26 Federal judge reignites education row between the Buenos Aires City and National governments, annulling previous court order authorising in-person classes at schools. City Hall, however, refuses to back down.

Rodríguez Larreta’s labyrinth

17-04-2021 09:06 Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta marks out his differences with the government and the hardliners in the opposition Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

by Gabriel Ziblat

Daniel Barenboim: tireless maestro won’t let pandemic slow him down

17-04-2021 08:29 Argentina-born maestro has been on stage for 71 years and says he is always ready to "start again from scratch."

Argentina's schools become political battleground after curbs

16-04-2021 17:13 Decision to shut down schools has become the latest point of political conflict between the federal government and the City of Buenos Aires, run by the opposition, as the country heads into a second wave of Covid-19.

Fernández hits back at Bolsonaro over military's role during pandemic

15-04-2021 12:47 President Alberto Fernández responded to a mocking attack from his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday, following the Argentine leader's announcement of tightened restrictions to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

Government rolls out five-stage plan to vaccinate teachers

24-02-2021 16:36 Government announces that it will vaccinate teachers with the one million Sinopharm doses that are due to arrive from China on Friday. First round of vaccines will be given to over 450,000 teachers working in pre-school, special needs and primary schools.

Buenos Aires Province begins vaccinating those aged 70+

18-02-2021 13:58 Provincial government begins to give first shots of Sputnik V vaccine to citizens aged over 70, using schools and other sites as temporary vaccination centres.

Too cool for school, or too hot?

16-01-2021 07:27 Education is the real orphan of the debate on systemic change.

UK PM Johnson orders new lockdown, closes schools in England

04-01-2021 17:23 UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new strict coronavirus restrictions, closing schools and ordering a third national lockdown for England.

We don't need no education

21-11-2020 09:38 Instead of campaigning to get their members back to work, Argentina’s teachers’ unions are determined to prolong the longest school holiday ever until everyone has been properly vaccinated.

by James Neilson

Dozen secondary schools re-open doors in Buenos Aires City

13-10-2020 16:44 Twelve schools re-opened their doors in the capital on Tuesday, with teachers hosting the first face-to-face classes in Buenos Aires City for seven months.

Education Minister: 85% of schools in Argentina will likely re-open in August

09-06-2020 16:32 Education Minister Nicolás Trotta says that 85% of students may be able to return to classes in August. Schools in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area will have to wait until infections in the region begin to drop off.