A senior consults a doctor via a telemedicine system at an elderly care home in Shanghai.
A senior consults a doctor via a telemedicine system at an elderly care home in Shanghai. (Photo from the official
account of the news office of Shanghai's Fengxian district on WeChat)

It was just past midnight at Jinyang Elderly Care Home in Shanghai's Pudong New Area when nurse Zhao Zhanping received an alert on her phone, indicating that Wang Mingxiang, on Bed No. 2, Room 324, needed immediate attention because abnormal blood pressure had been detected. Zhao rushed to the room without hesitation.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and political analyst

American economist Jeffrey Sachs says that the epoch of Washington’s global dominance has ended, but the United States has not recognized it so far. “We are living in a multipolar world. Russia is a great power; the United States is a great power; China is a great power; India is a great power,” Sachs said in an interview with TASS published on Saturday.

Ecuador: almost 50 percent of childhood live in poverty.

According to the latest data published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), 49.4% of children in Ecuador live in poverty due to unmet basic needs.