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Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:31:00 GMT
Falklands announces Covid-19 vaccination program beginning 8 February and for everybody over 50
As the first batch of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines have arrived in the Falkland Islands, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) announced it will start the Covid-19 vaccination programme on 8 February. “We plan to admi...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:01:00 GMT
Falkland Islands approves changes to quarantine and visitor policies
The Falkland Islands Government Executive Council, ExCo, has done a review of policies, protocols and legislation referred to Covid-19, and announced decisions on quarantine regulations and visitor policies with a change of cat...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:54:00 GMT
Johnny rooks threatened in Argentine islands by deer and goats
Argentine scientists from the Austral Scientific Research Center (CADIC) in Ushuaia announced they have revealed the subsistence mystery of the striated Caracara prey bird, "carancho austral", in the Isla de los Estados (*), du...

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:30:00 GMT
Falklands strict conditions to ensure “clean” vessels operate in the 2021 fishing season
The Falkland Islands government issued a release on Tuesday announcing the “clean” conditions vessels entering territorial waters for the 2021 fishing season must meet, basically a minimum of two weeks quarantining at sea, ...

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 09:11:00 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.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 09:21:00 GMT
Lufthansa Airbus A350 en route to Falklands, on its longest non-stop flight
This Sunday, January 31, an Airbus A350-900 takes off on the longest non-stop flight in Lufthansa's history under flight number LH2574: 13,700 kilometers from Hamburg to the Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands.

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:40:00 GMT
Falklands: access to MPC remains restricted for fourteen days
The government of the Falkland Islands and officials from Mount Pleasant Complex held on Sunday an extraordinary meeting and decided that access to the Complex will remain restricted for the next fourteen days given the sanitar...

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 07:03:00 GMT
An enriching year for Falklands Biography Dictionary
2020 was a year of substantial progress for the Dictionary of Falklands Biography website reports its administrators. The average number of hits recorded every day was 40, a yearly total exceeding 13,000.



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