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Ecuador reported 3,060 new cases of the Covid-19 virus Saturday, the highest daily total since the pandemic began in March. The daily count averaged 600 per day from August through early January but has increased to 1,000 a day in the past two weeks. Pichincha...
By Cal Flyn For many years it seemed that overpopulation was the looming crisis of our age. Back in 1968, the Stanford biologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich infamously predicted that millions would soon starve to death in their bestselling, doom-saying book The Population...
China will overtake the U.S. to become the world's biggest economy by 2028, a full five years earlier than previously forecast, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, an economic forecast predicts. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a UK-based think tank,...
The Quito Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Industries and Production and the Quito Restaurant Association are appealing to Mayor Jorge Yunda to roll back new restrictions on driving, business hours and liquor sales. Diego Vivero, representing the restaurant...
Art, craft, and music are basic human functions. They also cannot function without one another and we cannot function without the shared participation and collaboration they provide. The recent discovery of ochre paintings, some 12,500 years old and spanning nearly...
In addition to the strengthening mask-wearing requirements on airlines and in airports, the newly installed U.S. government of President Joe Biden announced this week that it will require all travelers arriving in the country to quarantine for at least seven days. The...
The World Health Organization said on Friday it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and should be able to start delivering vaccines to poor and lower-middle income countries next month under its COVAX program....
Jueves, 21/1/2021 Hola, Todos - The article yesterday about the closure of the chifa did not name the chifa, and the health inspector I talked to was in the U.S. By law, businesses under legal investigation or penalized for local violations cannot be named by the...
Americans are hitting the road again. But they’re not traveling to Chicago on business or to Las Vegas and Disney World for vacations. They’re going in search of vaccines. Frustrated by crashing appointment websites, shortages of Covid-19 shots and a patchwork of...
By Jan Walter Two out of three Latino votes went to Joe Biden in the presidential election. This is not the only reason why expectations of Joe Biden are high, however. As Barack Obama's vice president, Biden was the main emissary to Latin America, and in the early...
At the midway point, Ecuador’s 2021 presidential campaign is being panned by political analysts. In particular, they say that the debates of the last two weekends offered voters little useful information for making a decision on election day, February 7. “The next...
Miércoles, 20/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Catálogo con productos del Azuay (Catalog with Azuay products) - MIES has published "Nosotras emprendemos," a digital catalogue for women entrepreneurs who have gotten Crédito de Desarrollo...
Martes, 91/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Ingenieros alistan foro sobre consulta minera (Engineers prepare forum on mining consultation) - The Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles del Azuay (CECA) will hold a virtual forum el viernes a las...
Editor's note: The riot at the U.S. Capitol two weeks ago has ignited a debate about the role of major social media platforms as purveyors of news and other information, much of it proven to be false and incendiary. The debate focuses on social media's special...
By Liam Higgins Ecuadorians living on the country's north coast were reminded once again last week that they live in the seismically active zone known as the "ring of fire" that encircles the Pacific Ocean. Over an eight-day period, more than 100 earthquakes were...
--Sponsored post -- By Cathy McKay As we come into our "latter years," we have lots of big decisions to make. One of the biggest is where we want to spend those years? It could be abroad. Well, the time is drawing near. After working hard for what—30 or 40 years—we...
The Emergency Management Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) is recommending that governments not require travelers entering their countries to provide proof of Covid-19 vaccines until more data about the vaccine's effectiveness and the number of people...
Ecuador Health Juan Carlos Zevallos said Sunday that he does not expect to see a surge in Covid-19 cases like those being experienced in the U.S. and Europe. “The numbers of new cases increased last week but it was not the kind of spike we are seeing elsewhere,...
Lunes, 18/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada Otras cosas - Titular - Semana inicia con mira en vacunación (Week starts with a view to vaccination) - The first 15,000 doses of Covid vaccines will arrive in the country this week and vaccinations will start. Similar...
By Shivani Vora On Sunday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that, as of Tuesday, January 26, all air passengers ages two and older must show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to enter the United States. The new rule includes U.S. citizens...
