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Jueves, 30/12/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Ómicron se expande; ley todavía en ciernes (Omicron expands; law still in the making) – See today’s afternoon story in CHL. Cuenca – “Podemos estar hablando de los últimos episodios de la pandemia” (“We may be talking about the last episodes of the pandemic.”) –...
The National Assembly’s Health Rights Commission has completed the first draft of the Pandemic Health Emergency Law, with debate by the full Assembly scheduled to begin in early January. “This is urgent legislation because of the Covid-19 emergency,” Assembly President Guadalupe Llori said Wednesday. “It is my intention to send the final law to the...
Beginning in 2022, Ecuador will offer a new visa option for foreigners who work online. Called the “internet nomad visa” or simply the “nomad visa,” it will allow those who qualify and their families to live and work in Ecuador for up to two years. Tourism Minister Niels Olsen is working with the Ministry of...
Miércoles, 29/12/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Obras estudiantiles en primer Festival de Cine de Naranjal (Student works in first Naranjal Film Festival) – The first International Student Film Festival started yesterday and will continue until 30/12 with short films by 3d level film students in universities in Colombia, Argentina, the US, Chile, Cuba and...
By University of Reading Human DNA can be extracted from the ‘cement’ head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have found, which could provide an important new window into the past. In a new study, scientists for the first time recovered DNA from cement on hairs taken from...
The highway that connects Cuenca to Guayaquil and the coast reopened Tuesday on a limited basis following a two-month closure due to rockslides. The highway will be open from 5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. with Transportation Ministry monitoring the stability of the adjacent mountainside. The Ministry said work will begin immediately to build an alternate...
President Guillermo Lasso announced Tuesday that the government will maintain the price of diesel fuel and regular gasoline at current levels. “We are not going to raise the price of basic fuels so everybody can calm down,” he said in Guayaquil. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) said that maintaining the freeze on fuel prices...
Many countries in Latin America were hit with soaring Covid-19 death rates early in the pandemic, as coronavirus raged throughout the region. The tide is turning in many Latin American nations today, where vaccination rates are outpacing countries in Europe and North America and helping drive down deaths. The vaccine rollout was slow at the...
The Ministry of Health said Monday that demand for Covid-19 vaccines in the last seven days has been the highest since the emergence of the Delta variant in early 2020. “The large numbers are a result of fear of the new Omicron variant and the entry restrictions placed on public locations and events,” according to...
Lunes, 27/12/2021 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Nada. Titular – Migración: posible paso por Nicaragua (Migration: possible passage through Nicaragua) – The Ministerio de Gobierno warned that since septiembre there has been an unusual increase in Eucadorians traveling to Nicaragua. From Sept. to Oct. to Nov. the numbers increased from 199, to 791 to 1,012....
By Stephen Kinsella We have come a long way from the optimism that surrounded the internet in the early 1990s. As Tim Berners-Lee has remarked several times, there was a “utopian” view of its potential to democratise news and reinforce social cohesion. Indeed, only 10 years ago, we were celebrating the role that online communications...
By Kristen Warfield With the increased popularity of ordering food from online platforms such as Glovo and UberEats throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, you might not think that the order in which the food is presented on the menu may make any difference. But one new study found that it actually does. Led by Flinders University...
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