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Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:42:00 GMT
Falklands receives first batch of 3,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine
The Falkland Islands Government has welcomed the delivery of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday 1 February 2021. Upon arrival the vaccines were carefully offloaded from the South Atlantic Airbridge and were transported by...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:41:00 GMT
Falkland Islands' vaccination rollout begins 8 February on a priority list
The Falkland Islands' Executive Council on Monday afternoon approved plans for the Falkland Islands Covid-19 vaccination rollout. The two-phased approach has been developed by KEMH and largely follows the approach recommended b...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:40:00 GMT
Uruguayan president will share lunch with Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Wednesday
Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou will be flying to Brasilia on Wednesday to share an informal lunch with his peer Jair Bolsonaro, his first overseas trip since taking office, but also a clear balancing act of the country's ...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:38:00 GMT
Lufthansa lands in Falklands with scientists; returns to Germany on Wednesday
Lufthansa’s longest flight ever has landed in the Falkland Islands. The aircraft departed Hamburg at 21:23 on Sunday, landing at Mount Pleasant Complex at 09:00. The flight, which is also the longest flight to have departed H...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:28:00 GMT
Pfizer-BioNtech promises 75 million more vaccines to EU in 2021 second quarter
BioNtech-Pfizer has promised to deliver up to 75 million more coronavirus vaccine doses to the EU in the second quarter of 2021, the company's head Sierk Poetting said in a statement on Monday.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:27:00 GMT
Discards are a general practice consented by Argentine fisheries authorities, claims Puerto magazine
The Argentine magazine Puerto, which specializes in reporting on fisheries and ports exposed a video from a trawler crewmember in which it shows tons of hake discards dumped back into the sea, which is in violation of Argentine...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:16:00 GMT
Brazilian teamsters strike to protest fuel prices fizzles out
Brazil independent truckers strike got off on Monday to a weak start because of internal divisions on how to protest fuel prices. The government said traffic was flowing freely on all of the country's highways far from fears of...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:15:00 GMT
Coronavirus upshot: German beer sales down
Beer sales within Germany were down 5.5% in 2020 compared with the year before amid coronavirus pandemic restrictions the Federal Statistical Office has said. In total, German-based breweries and distributors sold 8.7 billion l...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:11:00 GMT
Falklands Latam's links to Chile and Brazil suspended until June
The Falkland Islands Government can confirm that commercial air links with both Chile and Brazil will remain suspended for a further three months until 29 June 2021.

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:10:00 GMT
UK will formally apply to join the Trans Pacific Partnership
The United Kingdom will formally apply to join one of the world’s largest free-trade areas, deepening trade ties with some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss will speak to mi...



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