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Quito, Apr 20 (EFE). - (CAMERA: Juan Francisco Chavez) Ecuador is currently vaccinating 50,000 people a day but the goal is 100,000, said President Lenin Moreno during an inoculation day this Tuesday in Quito, in which he insisted on the importance of this plan for the economy.
Quito, Apr 12 (EFE) .- Ecuador president elect, Guillermo Lasso, said Monday that his priority will be to fulfill his electoral promise to vaccinate 9 million people against Covid-19 in the first 100 days of Government, and stressed that fighting poverty and unemploymentare also part of his most immediate priorities.(Camera: JUAN FRANCISCO CHÁVEZ)SHOT LIST: THE STREETS OF QUITO, THE ARRIVAL OF ECUADOR'S PRESIDENT ELECT GUILLERMO LASSO TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE.SOUND BITES: PRESIDENT ELECT OF ECUADOR GUILLERMO LASSO (IN SPANISH)TRANSLATION:I believe that there is a fundamental priority and it is the vaccination process. I believe that this is fundamental and we will probably start sometime this week to define the best names to carry out this vaccination process to achieve the goal of vaccinating 9 million Ecuadorians in the first 100 days of the government.
The United States voices hope that a transitional body to lead Haiti, set up at a crisis meeting a week ago, could be ready "as soon as today." SOUNDBITE
French PM Elisabeth Borne arrives in French Guiana to spend New Year's Eve with the armed forces fighting illegal gold mining in this overseas territory. This is the Prime Minister's first visit to this department of 300,000 inhabitants in the north-east of South America. IMAGES
Britain's economy will rebound this year and not shrink as initially thought, but will grow far less than expected next year, finance minister Jeremy Hunt says as he presents his Autumn Statement to parliament. Gross domestic product will expand 0.6 percent in 2023, Hunt said citing the Office for Budget Responsibility fiscal watchdog, upgrading its prior forecast of minus 0.2 percent. GDP is then set to grow by 0.7 percent in 2024, which was sharply down from previous guidance for a 1.8-percent expansion. SOUNDBITE
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