Covid-19 in Latin America: April 2021 Update

Canning House welcomes a panel of speakers for a further renewed update on the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on Latin America’s health, economy and politics.

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Throughout 2020, the capacity of governments around the world to respond to crises has been tested. 2021 has offered little respite, with new Covid-19 mutations and continuing high rates of infection, necessitating the implementation of stricter restrictions to protect public health.

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However, the year arrived with a new hope – a number of vaccines against Covid-19 have gained widespread approval, and mass vaccination programmes have begun across Latin America. This in itself presents new challenges - and indeed opportunities - for supply and distribution, as well as a starting point for economic and social revival.

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Canning House welcomes a panel of experts for an update on the pandemic’s impact on the region’s public health and economies, and on the strategies adopted by governments for vaccinations and recovery.

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22nd April 2021 - 4PM GMT 
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María Dueñas. New Book Launch

Best-selling Spanish author María Dueñas will be headlining the BritishSpanish Society’s cultural events programme this Spring.

The writer has agreed to an exclusive online discussion with author and journalist and BSS chairman Jimmy Burns on May 6th to mark the publication of her latest novel Sira, the long-awaited sequel to El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress) with which she broke into the international literary scene in 2009.

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Sira is the fifth novel to be published by Dueñas . A professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Murcia, she came into the spotlight in 2009, achieving great success in Spain thanks to her first novel, El tiempo entre costuras, published in English language as The Time in Between and The Seamstress, a historical espionage novel, which sold more than a million copies.

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Her other published novels, all best-sellers and translated in numerous languages, are The Heart Has Its Reasons (Misión Olvido) (2012), The Vineyard (La templanza) (2015), and Las hijas del Capitán (2018).

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6th May 2021 - 6:30PM GMT

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