Coronavirus: Ecuador city blocks runway to Spanish repatriation flight

Authorities in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil have stopped a plane from landing by blocking its airport runway with trucks, cars and motorcycles. The Iberia plane had flown from Madrid to repatriate Spaniards after Ecaudor closed its borders to foreign travellers. Guyaquil’s mayor, Cynthia Viteri called the repatriation effort ’criminal’. ’How is it possible that you were going to permit this crew to stay in the city with the most coronavirus cases?’ she said. Almost half of Ecuador’s 260 confirmed cases