Minister of Health Camilo Salinas announced Friday that it has negotiated the delivery of millions of additional doses Covid-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies in Russia, China and the U.S. He said that CanSino will deliver three million doses of its Ad5-nCoV vaccine by July and that...
By Emily Laber-Warren The Sarayaku territory in Ecuador is a 500-square-mile roadless jungle reachable only by helicopter, small aircraft, or a full day’s canoe trip on the Bobonaza River. For outsiders, opportunities to connect with this community of about 1,200 people are rare. So, when...
By Agustin Geist Digital banking startup Uala will double the size of its operations in Argentina and Mexico with a $64 million investment as it seeks to convince more people across Latin America to skip traditional banking in favor of digital, the head of the company said on Friday. Pierpaolo...
In a Thursday news conference, the Ecuador Medical Federation and the Quito Chamber of Commerce asked the government to relax weekend confinement aimed at controlling the Covid-19 pandemic. “The restriction is causing great harm to Ecuadorian families, depriving them of the right to earn an...
Jueves, 6/5/2021 Hola, Todos - I'm tired so this is going to be a short issue. Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - "De una quiebra salió ETAPA EP" ("ETAPA EP came out of insolvency") - The Board of Directors of ETAPA will pick a new general manager tomorrow since José Luis Espinoza, who...
Yona Shemesh, 24, was born in Los Angeles, but he moved to Israel with his family at age 9. In July 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic was raging, he booked a ticket to Los Angeles to visit his grandparents in June 2021, knowing that he would have nearly an entire year to renew his American passport,...
Although the daily news reports from Cuenca’s two public and three private hospitals that accept Covid-19 paint a dire picture, most of those hospitalization are of people from out of town. The majority of patients are from Loja, El Oro, Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe Provinces, with Clinica...
Four gunmen, two dressed as policemen, entered a hospital in Guayaquil Wednesday morning and killed a Peruvian woman they mistook for their intended target. The armed men asked the nurses at a reception desk for the room number of the man they intended to kill but it turned out he was released on...
Miércoles, 5/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Taller de Crónica (Chronicle Workshop) - The site Los Cronistas has an online workshop called "La delgada línea entre la realidad y la ficción" (The thin line between reality and fiction) <There are too many people who just...
Rising rates of Covid-19 infections in Brazil and other countries in Latin America are prompting calls for the U.S. to send more doses of vaccines south. Among the arguments for the shipments is the risk posed by millions of Latinos traveling to and from the U.S. According to the latest population...
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