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The University of the Republic (Spanish: Universidad de la República, sometimes UdelaR) is a public research university in Montevideo, Uruguay.It is the oldest and largest university in the country, as well as the second largest public university in South America and the world's 57th largest by enrollment, with a student body of 137,757 undergraduate students in 2018 and 6,351 postgraduate ...
The COVID‑19 vaccines are widely credited for their role in reducing the spread of COVID‑19 and reducing the severity and death caused by COVID‑19. According to a June 2022 study, COVID‑19 vaccines prevented an additional 14.4 to 19.8 million deaths in 185 countries and territories from 8 December 2020 to 8 December 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay has resulted in 1,042,511 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 7,693 [1] deaths. The first cases in Uruguay were reported on 13 March 2020 by the Ministry of Public Health. [2] The early cases were imported from Italy and Spain, with some local transmissions. [3]
The Faculty of Sciences is a public institution of education, research, and extension in the field of natural sciences and exact sciences, forming part of the Universidad de la República (UdelaR) of Uruguay. It is located in Montevideo, specifically in the neighborhood of Malvín Norte, at the intersection of Iguá and Mataojo streets.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, convention centers (pictured here) were deemed to be ideal sites for temporary hospitals, due to their existing infrastructure (electrical, water, sewage). Hotels and dormitories were also considered appropriate because they can use negative pressure technology.
SARS-CoV-2 is the seventh known coronavirus to infect people, after 229E, NL63, OC43, HKU1, MERS-CoV, and the original SARS-CoV. [105] Like the SARS-related coronavirus implicated in the 2003 SARS outbreak, SARS‑CoV‑2 is a member of the subgenus Sarbecovirus (beta-CoV lineage B). [106] [107] Coronaviruses undergo frequent recombination. [108]
In 2020, after the suspension of the first admission exam on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and after more than six months of not applying it, [101] the University Council decided to approve the application of the online admission exam, being the first of its kind in the history of the university, on October 2 and 3 of that same year. [102]
The president asked students and teachers to abide by the COVID-19 protocols who would be involved in the conduct of the 2020 final year exams. [32] GES and GHS issued a joint statement stating, “any school where no positive case of COVID-19 has been recorded, the students can vacate and go home." due to COVID-19 infections recorded in some ...