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By Dan Gelernter If you’re in a high-risk group and you’d like to get the vaccine, go right ahead. I’m not a doctor and I have no wish to advise anyone in the matter — but, equally, I resent people throwing unsolicited advice at me. I am not in a high-risk group. I’m...
The Pan American Health Organization is describing South America as the "epicenter" of the Covid-19 virus as new cases and deaths soar in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and lowland areas of Bolivia. Other countries, including Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina...
By Emma O'Brien and Claire Che With the resumption of global travel on the horizon, some people are discovering that their choice of vaccine could determine where they’re allowed to go. Already, the European Union is planning to allow Americans vaccinated with shots...
The government has reversed an earlier decision to include Friday’s Labor Day holiday in a three-day weekend lockdown. On Saturday night, President’s Lenin Moreno’s communication office announced that Friday will be subject to the same 8 p.m. curfew that applies from...
I received my first inoculation last week and imagined the worst was now behind us, but this is not to be. Once again the streets are drained, forcing restauranteurs and others to wonder how they can afford to feed their families. Street vendors are locked down. Fruit...
Israel and Bahrain on Thursday reached what Israel calls the world's first bilateral agreement for mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccine passports for quarantine-free travel between two countries, an Israeli diplomat who helped forge the deal tells NPR. "This is the...
The weekend lockdown begins a day early next week due to the Labor Day holiday, which will be observed Friday, April 30. Confinement will begin at 8 p.m. Thursday and continue until Monday, May 3 at 5 a.m. “There will be no Labor Day events this year due to the health...
Ecuador’s National Assembly approved a law late on Thursday granting autonomy to its central bank, a move celebrated by President Lenin Moreno’s government on Friday as a step toward economic stability. Moreno’s market-friendly administration had pushed the reform as...
By Sylvan Hardy The weekend's lockdown that begins tonight didn’t have to happen. Neither did the Monday through Friday nighttime curfews. According to several medical and public health administration experts, the new state of emergency to control the Covid-19 virus...
Jueves, 22/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Restricciones por la vida (Restrictions for life) - See Thursday's articles (jueves, 22/4) in CHL for the story. <I think I'm going to be baking this weekend -- use up some of that yeast I...
Supermarkets have adjusted their operating hours to accommodate the curfews imposed by the new state of emergency. Most will be closed during the weekend lockdowns but some will take orders for home delivery. Coral Hipermercados announced it will open Monday to Friday...
By Jeff Van Pelt Mark Twain said, “Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” Some people must not have gotten that breeding. Trolling on Facebook, and in the comments section of various online...
The state of emergency declared by President Lenín Moreno begins Friday, April 23 at 8 p.m. with full weekend lockdowns and a 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew Monday through Friday until May 20. Which activities are allowed and which are not under the new rules? Check out the...
Miércoles, 21/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Muestra fotográfica de mujeres rurales se inaugura hoy (Photographic exhibition of rural women opens today) - A project by the Red de Turismo Comunitario del Austro "Pakariñan" to strengthen the...
She was always there. Every Sunday morning she came at the same time. It was during my early days in Ecuador, when I walked in the area, that we met. I studied her and familiarized myself with her mannerisms. She was a disabled person. Her handicap was the inability...
By Sean Illing America’s commitment to free speech is uniquely radical. The US Constitution treats freedom of expression as the master freedom that makes every other possible. And our legal system reflects this view, which is why it has always been incredibly...
The Ecuador Society of Intensive Care has joined other national and local medical organizations in asking the government to impose a nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the Covid-19 virus. “We urgently need a state of total confinement of the population to...
The government announced Tuesday afternoon that interprovincial and intraprovincial bus fares will increase 15% on May 1. The agreement with bus operators ended a two-day bus strike that had disrupted traffic throughout much of the country. Bus companies had demanded...
Martes, 20/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Moreno: la mesa no queda servida (Moreno: the table is not served) - President-elect Lasso and outgoing President Moreno met with their respective Vice Presidents and transition teams. Moreno...
By Olga Rodriguez and Marcos Martinez They travel thousands of miles by plane from Latin America to the U.S., in some places taking a shuttle directly from the airport to COVID-19 vaccine sites. Their ranks include politicians, TV personalities, business executives...
