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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 following summer holidays will be pushed back by...
Miércoles, 11/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – “El Tejido” – “The Tissue” or “The Weaving” is a new cultural space at calle Baltazara de Calderón 2-19 y Miguel Vélez and is part of the San Sebastián cultural circuit. In addition to presenting exhibits and artistic projects, the two brothers who...
Acknowledging that Ecuador has been hard-hit by the dramatic drop in oil prices and the coronavirus, President Lenin Moreno is proposing a combination of budget cuts and new taxes to shore up government finances. “The country is in a delicate economic situation today and we are asking our citizens for their support and understanding to...
Miércoles, 10/3/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Muestra – “La otredad del espacio” (The otherness of space) was opened at the Casa de Chaguarchimbana, and is a show of works by the students from the Eugenio Espejo school. Otras cosas – Titular – Se desploman precios (Prices plummet) – See...
Michael Osterholm, the infectious disease expert who has been warning for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic, says the U.S. and most of the rest of world is ill-prepared to combat the coronavirus due to a shortage of equipment and supplies. Osterholm, of the University of Minnesota, wrote in...
“The people are telling us that many of the public spaces in Cuenca are drab and gray and need some greenery,” says Dora Ordóñez, director of the Municipal Cleaning Company of Cuenca (EMAC). “Our answer is, ‘we hear you,’ and are planning a landscaping program to increase the amount of planted areas in our plazas...
Ecuador poses one of South America’s highest financial risks for foreign investors, according to the JP Morgan international risk index. Ecuador has a rating of 2,793 compared to 2,783 for Argentina. Ecuador’s risk skyrocketed 811 points over the weekend as international oil prices suffered their worst drop since the 1990 Gulf War. The highest risk...
Lunes, 9/2/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Cooperativa Artesanal – A group of artisans that has been exhibiting their work in the Galerías de Oficios in the CCE are moving into a new space on Pres. Córdova y Luis Cordero starting el 12 de abril. The cooperative will sell copper,...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Health reported the country’s 15th case of the coronavirus on Sunday. The ministry said that the 41-year-old woman who tested positive was related to the country’s first case, a woman who arrived in Ecuador from Spain on February 14. The ministry said it is also seeking information about a Paraguayan man who...
By Brenda Langdon A friend asked me last week what measures one can take to lower exposure and prepare for coronavirus. It appears likely to me that we are in the early stages of a pandemic, and there are many variables at play. There is actually very little difference between an epidemic and a pandemic. A...
By Isaac Chotiner In his new book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Frank M. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at Yale University, examines the ways in which disease outbreaks have shaped politics, crushed revolutions, and entrenched racial and economic discrimination. Epidemics have also altered...
Although the regional director of the Ministry of Health says there are no cases of coronavirus cases in Cuenca, local physicians are less optimistic. Announcing another negative test result on Friday, David Ordonez, Zone 6 Ministry of Health director, said he felt confident that Cuenca was “free of the disease.” The test Ordonez was referring...
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