Sources: Euronews
The Chilean government announces that they will begin administering booster doses for those who have received the Sinovac CoronaVac vaccine beginning on August 11 for people over the age of 55 using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and in September for people under the age of 55 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in order to protect the population from the Delta variant. 2021-08-5
Chile reports 753 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the lowest daily total in the country since April 2020. 2021-07-27
Chilean search and rescue authorities declare that a crewman who fell overboard from a competitor vessel is lost at sea. 2018-03-27
A wildfire destroys almost the entire town of Santa Olga in Chile's central Maule Region as a Russian firefighting Ilyushin Il-76 arrives to help fight the worst wildfire in Chile's modern history. 2017-01-27
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologizes that, for decades, German diplomats failed to act on abuses at Colonia Dignidad, the secretive German enclave in Chile whose story is told in the movie "Colonia". 2016-04-26
Waves of up to 4.5 meters are recorded at Coquimbo, Chile. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center, etc., issue tsunami advisories for Pacific Ocean coastlines. 2015-09-17
The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. 2015-04-16
Authorities in Chile close the Torres del Paine National Park, amid an ongoing forest fire in Patagonia. 2011-12-31
Australian airlines QANTAS and Virgin Australia suspends flights to Perth, Western Australia, due to ash from the eruption in Chile, with flights to Tasmania and New Zealand also cancelled. 2011-06-15
Chile begins attempts to rescue 33 miners trapped underground as a result of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. 2010-10-12