The argentine firm behind AstraZeneca COVID vaccine Latam production sees April/May launch
The Argentine biotech firm working on the production of 400 million doses of an AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for Latin America said on Friday it could begin shipping the active substance of the product to Mexico for completion. Esteban Corley, director of mAbxience, the biotech firm, said he foresaw the finished product could be distributed in Latin America between April and May. “Sometime in late February these materials will be exported to Mexico and in Mexico they will be formulated, filled…
Argentina Gradually Lifting COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Argentine President Alberto Fernández announced Friday that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions will be gradually lift starting Saturday. Fernández spoke at an official event, accompanied by Axel Kicillof, governor of Buenos Aires province and Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, mayor of Buenos Aires. “Between July 18 and August 2 we will be trying to return to normal life in this new world, in this different world that requires different care and we will do it gradually,” he said. Fernández warned, however,…
SOUTH AMERICA THE ‘NEW EPICENTRE FOR COVID 19’
The number of new daily cases of Covid-19 globally hit a record high on Sunday, the World Health Organisation said. The UN agency warned the pandemic appeared to be worsening, and has urged countries that had seen improvement to remain vigilant. “More than 100,000 cases have been reported on nine of the past 10 days,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing overnight. “Yesterday, more than 136,000 cases were reported – the most in a single day so far.” SOUTH…
The impact of Covid-19 on real estate
From residential to retail, offices to logistics, the long-term impact of Covid-19 When we decided on the theme ‘tipping points’ for our 2020 Impacts programme at the end of 2019, various topics were discussed: climate change, demographics, technology and many more. What we didn’t know is that we were about to be faced with a pandemic. Covid-19 changed the way we work and live almost overnight and is likely to have a long-term impact on real estate. As countries come out of their strict lockdowns but…
COVID-19 AND ARGENTINA: THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS
Argentina has adopted a stringent lockdown policy of shelter-in-place, allowing residents to leave their homes only for food, medication, or to work in an essential industry. This effort to “hammer” the contagion and mortality curves of the virus contrast with the more lax policies of its neighbour, Brazil. Which of these approaches proves most prescient is yet to be seen. But, for now, Argentina has elected to place the cost of its ordered lockdown on the private sector. Let us take a quick look. Presidential…
