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Hello. It’s Markku Sario again, sitting in for Robert Bradley, who is thankfully out of the hospital but is still very much in recovery from his painful knee surgery. The Covid-19 news has been dominating all the media outlets with gloom and doom for a depressingly long time. Believe it or not, I think there...
The Emergency Operations Committee (COE) tightened the rules for private vehicle use on Friday, reducing the number of days drivers are allowed on the streets. Beginning Saturday, March 28, vehicles with license plates ending in 1, 2 and 3 will be allowed to circulate on Monday and Friday; vehicles with license plates ending in 4,...
By Abrar Al-Heeti Edward Snowden on Monday warned that high-tech surveillance measures governments use to fight the outbreak of Covid-19, the disease caused by the newly identified coronavirus, could have a long-lasting impact. That’s according to an interview with the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival. The US government, for instance, is reportedly in talks with...
Jorge Washington Orlando, Deputy Mayor of Salitre, died yesterday of complications from the Covid-19, three days after he had tested positive for the virus. In addition, four other Guayas Province mayors have tested positive and are in quarantine. Among those infected is Cynthia Viteri, mayor of Guayaquil. Guayas Province Prefect is also in quarantine after...
Jueves, 26/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Topical song – Singer Andrés Pineda wrote a song, “Quedate en casa, por favor” and contacted 13 other professional singers to participate in producing it. The song is currently only available on the Facebook pages of the singers, César Morales, Daniel Vélez, Darwin...
By Jeremiah Reardon When my father John finished eighth grade in 1913 he joined his friends working in the Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania coal mines. The tipple boys separated waste from coal dropped on screens by the wrought iron tippler. An old miner cracked knuckles to keep them in line. Later, after finishing night school in...
By Kimberley Brown Nemonte Nenquimo, an Indigenous Waorani leader from Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, watched as her Indigenous colleagues, family and friends rushed back to their territory this past week, attempting to escape the threat of the coronavirus engulfing the region. Some travelled by car or bus, others flew by charter plane or travelled by boat...
The coronavirus pandemic may not go away in just a few weeks or so, Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, said during a Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday. “This is not a virus that goes away in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks. We are going to be living with this,...
Although it is too early to tell if Ecuador’s shelter-in-place rules are slowing the spread of the Covid-19 virus, Ecuador’s new Minister of Heatlh Juan Carlos Zevallos says he expects to see a “flattening of the curve” of new infections within a week to 10 days. “We are seeing some positive signs of improvement and...
Miércoles, 25/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – On-line festival – The CCE is transmitting the “Festival Arte Desde Casa” live during this health emergency. Much of it is aimed at children with puppet making, games, yoga classes, and reading childrens’ books. Musician Javier Calle inaugurated the festival by reading “La...
In mid-September back in 2017, Edie and I were traversing part of Ecuador’s lowlands as we worked our way up the coast from Salinas to San Lorenzo. As usual, we were on the look out for photo-ops but the atmospherics weren’t too accommodating. Eleven days of travel yielded eight rain days. Nonetheless, around the corner...
By Emma Farge and Sanjeev Miglani The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as India announced a full 24-hour, nationwide lockdown in the world’s second-most populous country. India joined the ranks of Britain and other countries clamping down to hold back the virus...
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Week of September 29
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