At the age of 4 or 5, Larrañaga was already known as “El Guapo” (The Tough One).
Uruguay s Interior Minister Jorge Larrañaga has died of a heart attack at the age of 64, President Luis Lacalle Pou announced Saturday. Jorge Larrañaga passed away. Very hard! I ve learned to love and respect him. He was affectionate even in the harshness of the battle. We have competed, we have cooperated, we have respected each other. He was at his best. RIP, Lacalle Pou posted on Twitter.
The Interior Minister and leader of the center-right White National Alliance Larrañaga was appointed Minister of the Interior March 1, 2020.
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A teacher is inoculated with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China s Sinovac laboratory, against the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, in Montevideo on March 1, 2021. | STR / AFP
Uruguay, the last country in South America to receive delivery of coronavirus vaccines, started its inoculation campaign Monday with a focus on teachers, soldiers, police and firefighters.
Some 90 vaccination centres countrywide opened their doors to give a first dose of the Chinese CoronaVac shot to some 140,000 essential workers, almost a year to the day since the country recorded its first cases of Covid-19 on March 13. Today we have the means to confront this scourge, Health Minister Daniel Salinas told reporters, adding that Uruguay had secured orders for all the vaccines necessary to immunise everyone 18 and older in the country of 3.4 million people.
Monzeglio admitted the green passport is being studied.
Top-notch presidential advisors in Uruguay in matters concerning the coronavirus pandemic are considering the feasibility of a “vaccine passport” like the one used in Israel, it was reported Sunday.
Health Ministry officials, the President s Group of Honorary Advisors (known as GACH) and the Government s Agency for Electronic Information and Knowledge Society (known as AGESIC) are evaluating the use of a so-called green pass, following the encouragement from tourism operators and local mayors.
Tourism Undersecretary Remo Monzeglio admitted the green passport ”is being studied by Public Health and the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) and we will too.”