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Martes, 7/4/2020 Hola, Todos – About those fake news articles – remember I said de vez en cuando, no cada día. The acrylic box is real – like a plastic laboratory glove box only not totally enclosed. Actividades – De la pagina cultural – 100 years of indigenous rebellion against elites – Patricio Montaleza researched...
A global condom shortage is looming as the coronavirus pandemic shutters factories and disrupts supply chains, the world’s top maker of the contraceptives said, with the United Nations warning of “devastating” consequences. Adding to the supply pressure, shelter-at-home orders in many countries means condom demand has never been higher, retailers report. Over half of humanity...
The education ministry announced Tuesday afternoon that classes will not resume in the current school year. “We will complete the term with online and television instruction and plan to finish on schedule June 30,” Ecucation Minister Monserrat Creamer said in a television broadcast. “It is not what we hoped for but it is necessary given...
Claiming that “justice has not been served,” former president Rafael Correa attacked his Tuesday conviction on corruption charges in a Quito criminal court as an “act of fraud” that will be corrected by international courts. He also said his attorney would appeal the sentence in Ecuador. Correa insisted that the conviction was intended to keep...
A national criminal court in Quito has found former President Rafael Correa guilty of corruption, sentencing him to eight years in prison following a trial that he denounced as political persecution. The sentence was handed down in absentia since Correa lives in Europe and refused to return to Ecuador to attend the trial. Judge Iván...
Ecuador’s Emergency Operations Committee has ordered all residents to wear protective face coverings in public areas. Under terms of the order, municipalities will enforce the rule which is intended to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. According to Interior Minister María Paula Romo, any mask, scarf or bandana that covers the mouth and nose...
Lunes, 1/4/2020 Hola, Todos – Sorry for the rant on 4/1 and thanks to all of you for your kind and supportive wishes. Obviously I’m not coping well with the Quedate En Case. But I’ve decided that April Fool’s Day shouldn’t be restricted to only one day a year, and so de vez en cuando...
By Jeremiah Reardon My friend Ramon’s wrists are secured to a side rail of his critical care bed. Perspiration trickles from his forehead to straining eyes which roll upward. I wipe his brow and hold a hand. I’m alarmed at his condition on my first visit to the hospital and pray for his recovery. A...
By Joao Fellet Indigenous communities in Brazil’s Amazon region are in danger of being “wiped out” by the coronavirus, according to health experts. Respiratory illnesses — such as those that develop from the influenza virus — are already the main cause of death for native communities. By Sunday April 5, Brazil had reported more than...
Although new cases of the Covid-19 virus increased Sunday, the numbers are far below those posted last week and Ecuador health officials expect to see a flattening of the virus growth curve this week or next. “Our strategy, like those of most countries, is to avoid a spike in cases which overwhelms the hospitals and...
Ecuador’s health care professionals are paying a high price for their frontline service in the fight against Covid-19. According the Ministry of Health, more than 1,600 of the country’s doctors and nurses, or 44 percent of all confirmed cases, have tested positive for the virus. “These are very troubling numbers but they aren’t unexpected,” says...
By Carolyn Kormann For thousands of years, a parasite with no name lived happily among horseshoe bats in southern China. The bats had evolved to the point that they did not notice; they went about their nightly flights unbothered. One day, the parasite — an ancestor of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 — had an opportunity to...
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