ON THIS DAY

The President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone, will make his first visit to Ecuador and will hold meetings with the Chief Executive, Guillermo Lasso, his work team, with members of the National […]

This rule will be in force as of Monday, May 17, 2021, with its publication in the Official Registry. Through Ministerial Agreement No. 80, the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry established the visa requirement, prior to entering […]

Ecuador registers 741 new infections and 87 more deaths in the last 24 hours. This May 17, 2021, the country reaches 410,870 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 19,786 deaths due to the pandemic. According to […]

Ricardo Vizueta, Undersecretary of Surveillance of the Ministry of Health, reported that there is a marked reduction in the waiting list for hospitalization. The week of May 9 there was a 48% reduction and, this […]

Ecuador will still keep its border with Colombia closed, as a measure to prevent COVID-19. The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry reported that they are holding dialogues for a possible reopening of borders in a gradual, orderly […]

Given the failure of the Government to immunize 2 million people until next May 24, the day of change of mandate, the president, Lenín Moreno, assured that, until this date, 1 million 800 thousand citizens […]

Crude production recovers to 400,064 barrels per day, after a year in which it had dropped due to technical and cyclical reasons. In a statement, Petroecuador said that this May 13 it exceeded 400,000 barrels […]

At least five Ecuadorians have died so far this 2021, after the attempt to cross the border between Mexico and the United States. Juan Gabriel Atancuri; Milton Quezada; Luis Joaquín Guamán; Diego Armando Juela and […]

Two of the 19 crew members of the Morning Chorus ship, two have tested positive for coronavirus, so the ship will remain in quarantine. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday night, […]