BUENOS AIRES, Aug 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A 62-year-old Bolivian citizen residing in the Argentine city of Córdoba who gained notoriety as the Delta variant “Case Zero,” has died Sunday morning after being hospitalized for three weeks. The cause of death was stated as “respiratory failure caused by severe bilateral pneumonia”…

RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil), Aug 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro city officials have reported a local man was able to get vaccinated five times in ten weeks against covid-19, presumably thanks to failures in the electronic documenting system. The multivaccinated subject is now expected to explain how he…

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — An Argentine-registered single-engined aircraft fell Sunday in the Sierras de las Ánimas, in the Uruguayan department of Maldonado, near Punta del Este. Both occupants died. ”The flight which was under radar control disappeared from it at 12:43 local time, prompting a search and rescue operation…

MEXICO CITY, Aug 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Six people were initially reported injured and taken to hospitals in nearby Campeche Sunday after a Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico was set ablaze following an explosion. Later Sunday Pemex announced one of its workers had perished and several…

Flames from the Caldor Fire scorch the ground near a home in Grizzly Flats, California LOS ANGELES, Aug 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — California’s fast-moving Caldor Fire has spread so quickly that it burned an area roughly half the size of Chicago in less than a week, forcing thousands to abandon their homes. An…

  NEW YORK, Aug 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tropical Storm Henri slammed into Rhode Island on the US east coast, knocking out power to thousands of Americans, uprooting trees and bringing record rainfall before weakening asit moved across New England.   The storm — earlier downgraded from a Category 1 Hurricane…