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In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost. Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," said...
Unless the election is too close to call, the National Election Council expects to declare a winner by 10 p.m. in today’s presidential runoff between Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso. The CNE says that vote counting should progress quickly since there is only one race...
Folks occasionally write to me when they are considering moving to Ecuador from Canada, or the U.S. This is largely due to my writing commentary for CuencaHighLife....
By Regina Garcia Cano and Mauricio Muñoz A surging coronavirus pandemic that has brought on new lockdown measures and exacerbated fatigue in Ecuador and Peru has left many voters generally indifferent to the names they will see on the ballots Sunday, when the...
For all the prophecies of doom about the outcome of Sunday’s election, the changes that will follow are likely to be relatively minor no matter who wins. Most of the dire forecasts come from right-wing and centrist editorialists and commentators. At their most...
By Somini Sengupta How does a country deal with climate disasters when it’s drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of...
Jueves, 8/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Un circuito para conocer Todos Santos (A circuit to get to know Todos Santos) - Provocando Experiencias is conducting tours to tell the stories that shaped the traditional Todos Santos barrio. The...
President Lenin Moreno fired Health Minister Mauro Falconí Wednesday night, blaming him for long waits at a Quito Covid-19 vaccination center earlier in the day. According to Moreno, some elderly people were forced to wait five hours due to a delay in vaccine...
Miércoles, 7/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - La cuarta Tertulia Cinema llega con una exposición (The fourth Tertulia Cinema arrives with an exhibition) - This edition of the Tertulia Cinema will include a show by Juliana Rengel, a collage...
I enjoy the lift that a freshly cut vase of flowers imparts to its environment. All flowers are enjoyable in the sense they elevate my mood. I enjoy the almost imperceptibly delicate to somewhat heavy perfumes they emit. Then, there are the shapes and the colors that...
By Kate Taylor, Avery Hartmans and Allana Akhtar As vaccines roll out across the U.S., thousands of people aren't getting vaccinated at CVS pharmacies or local health clinics. Instead, they're heading to abandoned Kmarts, Sears, and Toys R Us stores to get their...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that President Lenin Moreno’s 30-day Covid-19 state of emergency must end at midnight Friday and that continuing it until the end of the month would amount to an infringement on the constitutional rights of the country’s...
In addition to concerns about obtaining enough Covid-19 vaccines to inoculate 10 million Ecuadorians, the Ministry of Health suddenly has a new problem: people are not showing up for their shots. Based on preliminary data, the ministry says about 40 percent of those...
Martes, 6/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Del cuerpo del periodico - Muestra de pinturas en Casa de la Cultura (Exhibition of paintings in the Casa de la Cultura) - The CCE in Cañar is opening a show of paintings by artists in the province...
By Karl Sweetman The term “vaccine hesitancy” has been used in the medical field since the early 2010s but has come into mainstream use recently because of widespread resistance to vaccination for Covid-19. Depending on your point of view, justification for such...
By Steven Erlanger Alain Walravens, 63, is waiting to be invited for a first coronavirus vaccination. So are Marion Pochet, 71, a retired translator, and her husband, Jean-Marc. At least, Ms. Pochet said, they both have had Covid-19, “so we have some immunity, at...
By Priscilla Alvarez The Biden administration has placed around 28,000 radio ads in Latin America as part of a stepped-up campaign to discourage people from journeying to the US. But amid a dramatic spike in migrants to the southern border, many of whom have been...
By Stefano Pozzebon More than 100 days since the first Covid-19 vaccinations in Latin America, the pandemic is still dangerously resurging in some areas. The region's recent battle with the coronavirus remains marked by disparities, with some countries boasting of...
Lunes, 5/4/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Daños obligan a manejar con tino (Damages force you to drive skillfully) - Various stretches of the vía Cuenca-Girón-Pasaje need immediate attention since they're dangerous - especially for...
By Reginald Williams When someone picks your pocket and pilfers your cell phone, at first you panic. Then you are exposed to feelings of discouragement and vulnerability. You feel disheartened and helpless. Then finally, you accept that there’s nothing to do except...
