President Lenín Moreno confirmed that the request from municipalities and private institutions to import the vaccine against covid-19 was accepted. However, to do so, they must approve the requirements established by the National Agency for Health Regulation, Control and Surveillance (Arcsa).
The President confirmed the news during his speech on the radio program ‘De Frente con el Presidente’, broadcast this Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Moreno assured that the Government will be attentive to compliance with the guidelines for the importation of the vaccine.
Government will allow the importation of vaccines for municipalities and private institutions
“I have given the disposition to the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, to organize in the next few days, the possibility that vaccines are imported directly by the municipalities,” he said. However, the President revealed that he has doubts about this procedure.
Quito, Feb 24 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador is currently expecting the arrival of a new batch of vaccine doses to fight Covid-19, a disease that has infected as many as 275,780 individuals, according to official figures.
Hai Lu Feng 11 on 16 May 2020 stands as one of the most successful recent examples of both maritime security cooperation and naval operations in the Gulf of Guinea. Pirates took the vessel and its crew of 11 on 14 May off of Côte d’Ivoire and sailed across the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Ghana, Togo, and Benin before being interdicted 14 nautical miles off the coast of Nigeria. The information sharing across the region and the operations by the navies of Benin and Nigeria led to the successful release of the vessel and the hostages. The case will soon be the first true piracy case tried under Nigeria’s new Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offenses Act.
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Ecuador elections – The calm before the storm
By Michael Otto posted on February 23, 2021
Ibarra, Ecuador
Feb. 19 Almost 10 million voters, a record 81% of those eligible, went to the polls Feb. 7, despite the pandemic, to choose among 16 candidates in Ecuador’s presidential elections. The two top vote-getters will compete in the April 11 runoff elections. No candidate received enough votes to win in the first round.
Andrés Arauz, representing a continuation of the movement led by former President Rafael Correa, came in first place with 32.7% of the vote. Arauz is a former minister in the government of Correa running for the progressive Union for Hope-Central Democratic Party (UNES-CD).