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Buenos Aires Times | Less growth, higher deficit – potential impact of second wave lockdown

Photos representing sectors of Argentina s economy. | NA One year on from Argentina’s strict Covid-19 lockdown, a second wave of infections looms on the horizon, this time accompanied by the circulation of new, more contagious strains of the virus and a slow vaccination rate.  The cocktail threatens to impact on the economic recovery, yet Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has declared that “it will not be necessary to resort to closures like last year. He says industry has learned to produce while complying with health protocols. Experts, for now, tend to agree. Those consulted by Perfil believe that a strict quarantine, as witnessed in 2020, is unlikely due to Argentina’s fierce socioeconomic deterioration: last year ended with a poverty rate of 42 percent, with unemployment at 11 percent, and an economic contraction of 9.9 percent of gross domestic product.

Buenos Aires Times | Sputnik VIDA vaccine will be principally for Argentina

Sputnik VIDA. | Art by Joaquín Temes The Sputnik VIDA vaccine, manufactured by local pharmaceutical firm Laboratorios Richmond, will be used in principle for the Argentine State, company chief Marcelo Figueiras has confirmed. Speaking after his company and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced this week that Argentina had become the first country in Latin America to begin production of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Figueiras expressed his delight at the “good news” and praised the skill of the nation’s scientists. The 57-year-old then confirmed that the initial doses produced by the firm will be used “in principle, for the Argentina State, while the pandemic lasts.” 

Bolivia bans beef exports to guarantee domestic supply

Bolivia s domestic beef market needs to be adequately supplied before any surplus can be sold abroad, Gonzales said. The Government of Bolivia Thursday decided to halt all beef exports to prevent international demand from leading to an increase in price domestic consumers could not afford, Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Remmy Gonzales announced. “We have already talked with the sectors and we have already taken the measures to suspend exports while the domestic market is not supplied,” he told the media. Gonzales explained that a joint resolution was issued between the Ministries of Rural Development and Lands and Productive Development and Plural Economy to guarantee supply domestically before any surplus can be sold abroad.

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