Uruguay
Feel like you’ve seen it all? This cruise will change your mind
South America is an overlooked cruise destination, but nowhere gives you the chance to sail to more varied destinations.
- Brian Johnston
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The bird flu virus has adapted to sea mammals. Scientists are puzzled
And the new research findings hold a warning: H5N1 may similarly transform to cause large-scale infections in other mammalian species, including people.
- Apoorva Mandavilli
Amazing and crowd-free: 12 of the world’s most underrated countries
Look beyond the usual destinations and you’ll find outstanding countries that offer something different, and may well be bargain-priced and uncrowded too.
- Brian Johnston
‘Not easy to explain’: Sharp drop in South America’s COVID infections stuns experts
A few weeks ago COVID was ravaging the continent. Now new infections have fallen in nearly every nation as vaccination rates have ramped up.
- Ernesto Londoño, Daniel Politi and Flávia Milhorance
'Give limited information truthfully': The extrication of a cruise ship
While the Greg Mortimer floundered off the coast of South America, its Australian owner – a doctor and former neighbour to Malcolm Turnbull in Point Piper – was applying pressure behind the scenes.
- Harriet Alexander
Australian-owned cruise ship crew disembark in Uruguay
More than 100 passengers from Australia and New Zealand were flown home from the Antarctic cruise ship in April, but the crew remained on board.
Ship's smooth passage represents a favour repaid
Relieved Australian cruise passengers flown home from Uruguay might care to reflect on another humanitarian act nearly 50 years ago.
- Anthony Dennis
Most people on Antarctica cruise ship have coronavirus
Nearly 60 per cent of 217 people - many from Australia - on board a cruise ship off the coast of Uruguay have tested positive for the coronavirus.
- Guillermo Garat
More than 80 passengers on board Greg Mortimer cruise ship test positive for COVID-19
The path for repatriation of 90 Australians on the cruise ship stranded off Uruguay remains unclear after all 216 passengers and crew were tested for COVID-19.
- Jenny Noyes
Australian dramatically rescued from stranded cruise tests positive for COVID-19
A man in his 60s who leapt for his life from a stranded cruise ship is now fighting for his life in a Uruguay hospital after testing positive to coronavirus.
- Jenny Noyes
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