Ecuador lifts lockdown restrictions as state of emergency expires


  • World
  • Tuesday, 15 Sep 2020

QUITO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador on Monday lifted pandemic lockdown restrictions designed to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), including a nighttime curfew and ban on social gatherings.

The changes came as a nationwide state of emergency decreed on Feb. 29 in response to the health crisis expired at midnight.

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