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Interior Minister Minister María Paula Romo announced Friday that the face-to-face workday ban is being extended as the government prepares to introduce its “traffic light” system for health emergency restrictions. The face-to-face ban was due to expire April 11. Romo...
Viernes, 3/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Writing contest - El Mercurio and the Centro de Estudios Sociales de América Latina digital publishing house is calling for authors to participate in the "Testimonios, vivencias o reflexiones sociales ante la pandemia del...
By José María León Cabrera and Anatoly Kurmanaev Bodies left out on sidewalks. The authorities struggling to keep track of deaths. Funeral parlors out of coffins, using cardboard boxes made by companies that usually package bananas and shrimp. The calamity unfolding...
By Marco Aquino and Elida Moreno Peru and Panama are limiting the times men and women can leave their homes in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic and Colombia is beginning its own gender segregation program on Monday. Other Latin American...
What if someone told you that with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick they could detect a range of illnesses, from diabetes to cancer? Would you be inclined to opt for this diagnostic tool rather than having to submit to having a phlebotomist extract blood...
Interior Minister María Paula Romo said Wednesday that the government’s official count of Covid-19 cases is expanding to include those with symptoms of the virus. Until Wednesday, the count only included cases confirmed by testing. The change is the result of the...
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...
By Kristen Fischer Experts continue to encourage people to eat well and exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, reports claiming that supplements can prevent or treat Covid-19 have emerged. Health experts warn that relying on supplements — and taking too...
He was headed past the cloisters of the Governor’s Building next to Parque Calderon when I encountered the tiny boy. Or, was he “headed” at all, I began to wonder, as those red shoe soles tapped hurriedly up and down on the dirty, rust-colored tiles. There certainly...
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,...
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...
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...
By Louis Bourgeois I am being called this morning to begin writing in earnest, as we collectively "cocoon" around the world. In my writing as Sun King, I speak from a "place" that I call the energy body. I encourage any who are reading this post to accept that we have...
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...
Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be tested on people with COVID-19. There’s so much we don’t know,...
By Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for Covid-19. I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are...
By Terry Spry, Jr Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen, a family physician from Michigan, posted a video to YouTube regarding safe grocery shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video got more than 20 million views in just a week. He suggested things like limiting your time in...
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...
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...
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...
