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By Emily Buder When the Italian media began reporting on the increased community spread of the novel coronavirus across the country, Olmo Parenti, like many Italian citizens, didn’t take the threat of the pandemic too seriously. “My friends and I were almost mocking...
Hours before Ecuador’s coronavirus lockdown was scheduled to begin, President Lenín Moreno announced new restrictions on travel and personal movement, including the suspension of interprovincial bus and national air service, a nationwide nighttime curfew and rules for...
Lunes, 16/3/2020 Hola, Todos - I'd like to not translate anything coronavirus related, but then there'd be almost no articles left. Except sports, and I'm not going there. De la pagina cultural - Muestra - "Costearte" will be showing at the centro cultural...
By Richard Hobday When new, virulent diseases emerge, such SARS and Covid-19, the race begins to find new vaccines and treatments for those affected. As the current crisis unfolds, governments are enforcing quarantine and isolation, and public gatherings are being...
By Enda Curran Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coronavirus will be no different. The great depression spurred a "waste not want not" attitude that defined consumer patterns for decades. Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic still haunts German policy....
Ecuador is in lockdown mode following the addition of new rules and restrictions issued Sunday night to combat the coronavirus. In a televised address, President Lenín Moreno ordered strict controls on the movement of people and vehicles in the country as well as the...
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded Sunday night at 10:53 east of San Lorenzo, just south of the Colombian border. The quake, which occurred at a depth of six kilometers, was felt strongly in San Lorenzo and Esmeraldas and moderately in Quito, Ibarra, Santo...
By Alexander Smith and Saphora Smith No one is sugarcoating the coronavirus in the United Kingdom. Experts in the government have revealed that as many as 10,000 might already be infected in the country, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning Thursday, "I must...
Last week I reposted an article about food safety — this advice is relevant all year 'round, and certainly now that we all must take extra care to avoid contamination with the COVID-19 respiratory virus. I linked to Brenda Langdon's important article about this...
Ecuador has banned all international flights from entering the country and closed its ports and border crossings. The last flights bringing foreign travelers to the country must arrive by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. Flights carrying Ecuadorian citizens and legal foreign...
By Markku Sario First, may I apologize? I am Markku Sario of My Smorgasbord, not Robert Bradley, but merely a Bradley pro tempore with pretensions of adequacy. I am doing Robert’s column today while he is in the hospital with knee surgery that has become much more...
Latin American countries are stepping up measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus, halting flights to and from Europe, banning public gatherings and closing schools. Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Paraguay and Honduras took tougher steps a day...
Travelers entering Ecuador from the U.S. states of Massachusetts, California, New York and Washington have been added to the list of those who must undergo a 14-day quarantine. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Health had applied the order to travelers from China, Iran,...
Minister of Health Catalina Andramuño reported Friday that Ecuador’s first confirmed coronavirus victim has died. The 71-year-old woman, whose name has been withheld, arrived in Guayaquil on a flight from Madrid on February 14. She was hospitalized on February 29, the...
The government announced dramatic new measures Thursday to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Ecuador, including closure of the country’s schools. According to interior minister María Paula Romo, the new measures are necessary to reduce person-to-person contact....
Jueves, 12/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - Cuenca is the first Latin American city in which Trouble Diaries Series ("Diarios Problemáticos) will be exhibited. The show by 19 international artists from almost every continent will...
Just a few scant miles west of Cuenca lies a small and quaint paroquia named San Joaquin. Edie and I have been fortunate to call this area our home for a couple of years. It’s where we moved after our exodus from a life in El Centro where we lived high in the sky,...
Drug advertisements. Ugh. By the time they finish listing the side effects, you wonder why they even bother publicizing them? Have you noticed that almost every advertisement on the U.S. news show '60 Minutes' is for some pharmaceutical drug, or more recently, for a...
President Lenín Moreno declared a national health emergency Wednesday night, saying the action was in response to the elevation of the coronavirus to pandemic status by the World Health Organization (WHO). The declaration gives the government extra authority to take...
Peru delayed the start of its school year, imposed quarantines on travelers and limited the size of public gatherings in some of the most drastic measures yet taken by a Latin American nation to try to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. The start of classes...
