Ecuador: Covid-19 cases - 114.732 cases, 7.054 deaths

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Source: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...ronavirus.html


March 31, 2020 17:08 Covid-19 in Ecuador: 2 302 confirmed cases of coronavirus, this March 31, 2020
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More than 8,000 tests to detect covid-19 have been carried out in Ecuador and in 27.9% of cases the contagion of coronavirus was confirmed. The information was provided by the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, on the afternoon of this Tuesday, March 31, 2020.

2 302 cases of covid-19 are reported in the country until 17:00 this Tuesday, as well as 79 deaths on the 32nd day since the detection of the first person infected with this disease, in the province of Los R?os ...

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Source: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...-carrasco.html

April 1, 2020 11:43 AM COE confirms 2,748 cases of covid-19 in Ecuador; there are 93 deceased until the morning of April 1, 2020

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Ecuador documented for the first time since the start of the health emergency more than 400 new covid-19 infections in just 17 hours. 2 748 people have the disease and 93 have died, according to report No. 36 of the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE), prepared at 10:00 on Wednesday, April 1, 2020.

In the country there were 2,302 confirmed cases until 5:00 PM on Tuesday, March 31, according to report No. 35. The data reveals that the curve of infected people begins to grow. On Monday, March 30, there were 1,966 cases and on Sunday, 1,924.

The death curve for covid-19 also grows in Ecuador. As of the afternoon of Tuesday, March 31, the Emergency Operations Committee (COE) had registered 79 deaths. The morning of this April 1, the Vice Minister of Comprehensive Health Care, Ernesto Carrasco, reported that 93 people have lost their lives in "confirmed cases" of the disease. That means a 17.7% increase in deaths from coronavirus in 17 hours.

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As the coronavirus spreads in Ecuador, bodies are being left on streets

Wrapped coffins sit in the back of a pickup truck outside a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 1, 2020, seen in an image taken from video.

By PABLO JARAMILLO VITERI,
CHRIS KRAUL
APRIL 1, 2020
5:50 PM
QUITO, Ecuador —


The corpses have been overwhelming Guayaquil, a port city of 2.8 million at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Ecuador.

Over the last few days, several were wrapped in plastic and left on the streets. Others have lain unclaimed in hospitals and clinics that have been overwhelmed by infections. The city morgue is full.

The majority of the dead are believed to be victims of the virus, but nobody can say for sure how many. There has been little testing.

The country has confirmed 2,700 infections and 93 deaths — 60 of them in Guayaquil and its immediate surroundings. But municipal officials there said they have recovered at least 400 bodies in recent days....

Mayor Cynthia Viteri, who announced that she has tested positive for the virus, said the national government should be responsible for collecting the corpses.

“They’re leaving them in the villages, they fall in front of hospitals,” she said in a Twitter video message to residents last week. “No one wants to recover them.”

The majority of those whose bodies have been found on the street were probably indigent, said Hector Galarza, a publicist in Guayaquil. “But it is generating panic.”...



https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...in-the-streets

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3,163 cases; 120 deaths: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...s-ecuador.html

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Source: https://www.metroecuador.com.ec/ec/n...-de-abril.html
Ecuador has 3,368 cases of coronavirus; the death toll rose to 145 (April 3 at 11:00)
By Metro Ecuador
Friday, April 03, 2020, at 11:12

Ecuador has 3,368 cases of coronavirus, while the death toll rose to 145, according to the latest official figures revealed this April 3 at 11:00. Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that 3,361 suspected cases and 3,288 cases have been discarded. While 71 people have been discharged from hospital. The "Nationally Probable Deceased" (not medically confirmed) at 101.

In a virtual press conference, the Vice Minister of Comprehensive Health Care, Ernesto Carrasco explained that the high trend continues in Guayas with 2388 positive cases. Pichincha follows with 285, in Azuay there are 99, in Manab? 67, in El Oro 56, in Loja 27 cases, in Santa Elena 48 and in Los R?os 138.

Of the 3,368 cases, 1,845 are men (55%) and 1,523 are women (45%). About their condition: 71 have been discharged from hospital, while 2912 people are stable in home isolation, 112 are hospitalized stable, and 128 have a prognosis.
Deceased by province

Of the 145 deceased throughout the country, in Azuay there are 5, Bol?var 1, Ca?ar 2, Chimborazo 1, Cotopaxi 1, El Oro 10, Guayas 102, Imbabura 1, Los R?os 9, Manab? 2, Pichincha 5, Santa Elena 4, Sucumb?os 1, Tungurahua 1.

According to data from the National Institute for Public Health Research (INSPI), to date 10317 samples have been taken for COVID-19 in Ecuador.

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Source: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...s-muertes.html

April 4, 2020 11:09 318 deaths in Ecuador: 172 cases confirmed by covid-19 and 146 by severe respiratory deficiency

Ecuador woke up this Saturday, April 4, 2020 with 3,465 people infected with the covid-19 disease and 318 deceased. The Vice Minister of Health presented a table specifying that 172 were confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and another 146 people lost their lives due to the severe respiratory deficiency syndrome that would be associated with the pandemic.

The announcement was made by Ernesto Carrasco, vice minister of Comprehensive Health Care, when presenting the update report covid-19 in Ecuador this morning through a national network.

Carrasco reported that the 146 citizens who probably died of covid-19 "are related to severe acute respiratory failure syndrome."

Likewise, the official detailed that 2,666 people are within the epidemiological fence, that is, in home isolation, 100 patients were discharged from hospital and 527 people are still hospitalized: 139 have a reserved prognosis.

The Vice Minister announced that, starting this Saturday, April 4, the national COE will issue a single daily update report on the impact of covid-19 in the country.

Which are the age groups with the highest number of deaths and infected by covid-19 in the country?
According to Bulletin No. 036 of the Ministry of Public Health, of the total deaths due to the new coronavirus strain (172), 74 citizens were over 65 years old. 65, on the other hand, were between 50 and 64 years old. The age group from 20 to 49 years registers 31 deaths. The MSP reports the death of a baby between 1 and 4 years old and a newborn between 0 and 11 months old.

The MPS explained that -of the total confirmed cases of covid-19 (3,465) - 2,049 are in the age group of 20 to 49 years. On the other hand, 800 patients are between 50 and 64 years old. 45 diagnosed citizens are between 15 to 19 years old; 26 patients range from 10 to 14 years old. The State Portfolio also registers 26 patients between 5 and 9 years old. 12 patients are babies between 1 to 4 years old and four are neonatal patients between 0 and 11 months.

The provinces with the highest number of infections Guayas concentrates the highest number of positive diagnoses: 2 402 cases. Pichincha follows with 321. Later, the provinces of Los R?os, with 153; Azuay, 99; Manabi, 71; El Oro, 56; Canar, 56; Santa Elena, 48; Loja, 27; Bol?var, 26; Chimborazo, 25; Imbabura, 20; Esmeraldas, 14; Tungurahua, 22; Galapagos, 19; Cotopaxi, 16, Pastaza and Carchi, 9; Zamora Chinchipe, 2; Napo and Orellana, two cases by province ...

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Source: https://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.p...180-en-ecuador

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Sunday April 5, 2020
Covid-19 deaths rise to 180 in Ecuador

Quito, Apr 5 (Prensa Latina) The number of deaths from confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ecuador increased to 180 today, where infections also increased to 3,646.

The most recent report of the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) also indicates that there are 5,137 people across the country suspected of carrying the new strain of coronavirus.

Likewise, the COE assured that to date 12,386 laboratory samples have been taken.

According to the report, of the total of infected, two thousand 687 remain stable in home isolation and 679 are hospitalized, 158 of them with reserved prognosis.

Along this same line, two thousand and nine, equivalent to 55 percent, belong to the male sex and 1,637, which represent 45 percent, to the female sex.

By age group, two thousand 184 patients are between 20 and 49 years old, 903 range between 50 and 64 years old and 47 diagnosed citizens are between 15 and 19 years old.

On the other hand, the COE clarified that there are currently 159 probable deaths due to Covid-19, with an inconclusive result.

In the incidence by provinces, Guayas is the most affected in number of infections (two thousand 524) and deaths (126).

Regarding deaths, El Oro reports 13, followed by Los R?os with 10 and Pichincha with six, while in Azuay there are five, in Santa Elena four, Tungurahua quantifies three, Ca?ar, Chimborazo, Manab? and Santo Domingo de los Ts?chilas two in each and finally, Cotopaxi, Bol?var, Sucumb?os, Gal?pagos and Imbabura recorded one death per province.

At a virtual press conference, after confirming the report's data, the Deputy Minister of Comprehensive Health Care, Ernesto Carrasco, specified that of the total of positive patients, more than 1,600 are health professionals, including doctors, nurses and technologists.

They are not serious cases, according to the official, who noted that they comply with the established isolation, to guarantee their recovery and subsequent return to work.

In Ecuador, the first case of Covid-19 was diagnosed last February and corresponded to a 71-year-old citizen, who returned to her family from Spain and died on March 13 of the disease.

Two days before his death, on March 11, the national government declared a Health Emergency in the country and on the 16th he declared a State of Exception and a curfew, which has been expanded in line with the increase in cases, along with the strengthening of measures , aimed at containing the advance of this pandemic, present in almost all the countries of the world.

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Source: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/...ontagiados-173

Coronavirus cases in Ecuador April 6, 11h00: 3747 infected and 191 deceased positive for COVID-19
Ecuador
April 6, 2020 - 11h06

Quito -

With a cutoff at 11:00 am, this Monday, April 6, the Vice Minister of Health, Julio L?pez, reported that there are 3,747 confirmed cases for COVID-19 and 191 deaths that tested positive, but there are 173 more deaths that are probable for the virus, in Ecuador.

In addition, 3843 patients were discarded and the number of 100 discharged persons has not changed. So far 13 039 samples have been taken.

Of the total of infected, 3066 are kept in home isolation, 234 are stable hospitalized and 156 hospitalized with reserved prognosis.

Of the confirmed deceased, 130 are in Guayas, 14 in El Oro, 10 in Pichincha, 10 in Los R?os, 5 in Azuay, 4 in Santa Elena, 3 in Manab? and in other provinces with deaths of less than 3. E

67.6% of those infected are in Guayas.

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Source: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/...95-contagiados

Coronavirus cases in Ecuador April 7, 18:30: 3995 infected and 220 dead
April 7, 2020 - 6:36 p.m.

The Emerging Operations Committee (COE) updated this Tuesday the number of people infected with coronavirus in the country. There are 3,995 confirmed cases, while there have been 220 deaths from COVID-19.

There are 3,956 cases discarded and 140 people have been discharged from hospital, according to the report issued by the entity.

The COE indicated that, so far, 14,406 tests have been carried out.

Data on coronavirus cases do not agree in Azuay

In addition, to the 220 deceased, there are 182 cases of deaths due to suspected coronavirus.

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https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/...-outbreak.html

Ecuador's government is preparing an emergency burial ground on land donated by a private cemetery in Guayaquil, the country's largest city, to address a shortage of burial plots as the novel coronavirus hits the Andean country hard.

As of Tuesday, the country had 3,995 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 220 deaths, with 182 more deaths suspected of being linked to the virus. The outbreak has sparked a shortage of wooden coffins, prompting some people to bury their relatives in cardboard boxes donated by cemeteries.

Large lines of cars carrying coffins waited outside private cemeteries across the city this week, as families waited for hours for a chance to bury their deceased relatives. The outbreak has overwhelmed hospitals and emergency services, with some families keeping dead bodies in their homes for days.

The government, which last week began storing the bodies of coronavirus victims in giant refrigerated containers until graves were prepared, is aiming to bury some 100 people a day at the cemetery in northern Guayaquil, which has the capacity for some 2,000 plots.

Jorge Wated, who is coordinating the government's response to the handling of the dead, said the government was conducting burials itself and would publish a guide on the internet to ensure relatives knew where their loved ones were buried.

"At the cemetery, they will be buried person by person, without cost to the families," Wated said.

The city of Guayaquil also said it would prepare two public cemeteries with the capacity to handle some 12,000 plots.

President Lenin Moreno said last week that some 3,500 people could die from the coronavirus in Guayas province, home to 68% of the country's cases and where Guayaquil is located.

Among the dead so far have been seven nurses, according to the Guayas College of Nurses, which added that some 147 nurses had been infected and 120 had resigned for fear of contagion.

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Source: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...allecidos.html

April 8, 2020 11:12 AM National COE registers 4 450 covid-19 infections and 242 confirmed deaths related to covid-19
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The National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) registers a total of 4,450 confirmed infections by covid-19 in Ecuador this Wednesday, April 8, 2020.

Mar?a Paula Romo, Minister of the Interior, indicated that 3 741 people are stable and complying with home isolation, 178 are stable hospitalized and 146 hospitalized with reserved prognosis of the total of 4 450 infected people. There are 242 deceased people of this group of people and 140 have been discharged from hospital.

The Government Minister indicated that there are 240 people who died probably with covid-19.

Romo added that citizens are going to see the curve with a figure of the day when the people's symptoms began. The capacity to test in the country has tripled, of the dammed results, 15 526 samples have been taken, he assured.

A single curve is made with the contagion report, because there is still a lag in the data, he said.

In one more week, the two isolation periods of 14 days each will be completed. In Ecuador next week, the isolation measures will be held for 28 days. Romo assured that the isolation will be extended with rigorous measures in many of the provinces, in all at first, but after evaluating city by city and province by province, to know in which activities the measures can be relaxed, for this It will create a traffic light to know which activities can or cannot be resumed. I mean

In Quito and Pichincha, the isolation is most likely to spread because it has gradually become the second province with the highest number of cases.

The Government has an artificial tool that allows, through the GPS of the phones, to know if the people who tested positive for covid-19 mobilized. It has been documented to send to the Prosecutor's Office and follow a judicial process for disobeying the order and putting the lives of Ecuadorians at risk. The penalty is up to three years in prison.

The collection of fines, for not complying with the traffic ban, will be through payments to basic services, Romo said.

Minister Mar?a Paula Romo said that if within 24 hours no member of the family has expressed the will to take care of the burial or cremation of a person who died by covid 19, at that time the State takes over.

Ba?os de Agua Santa is not without security. The National Police is guaranteeing security. The minister assured that the uniformed are responding to emergency calls and patrolling. The National Police Training School is not being used, he said.

People who have moved to other countries have to cover their return expenses. Humanitarian flights are maintained in a slow way, according to the calendar, where travelers are considered to be abandoned in isolation, in order to receive others.

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Romo confirms 4,965 cases of covid-19 in Ecuador; 272 deaths are registered until the morning of April 9, 2020: https://www.elcomercio.com/actualida...d19-datos.html

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Coronavirus cases in Ecuador: April 10, 7161 infected, 297 deceased
Of 21,568 samples taken, Ecuador reached a figure of 7,161 confirmed cases of coronavirus, when until yesterday there were 4,965.
In addition, there are 6,496 discarded. 6102 stable cases at home.

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Source: https://www.infobae.com/america/amer...r-coronavirus/

Ecuador registered 315 deaths and 7,257 coronavirus infections
It is the Latin American country with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in proportion to its population as a result of poor crisis management.
April 11, 2020

Ecuador, one of the Latin American countries most affected by the coronavirus, registered this Saturday 315 deaths, with 7,257 positive cases of infection and 411 patients with hospital discharge after having passed the quarantine, reported the Minister of Government (Interior), Mar?a Paula Blunt.

Saturday's data confirms it again as the Latin American country with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 in proportion to its population, revealing poor management of the drama from the start.

The official added that there are other 338 cases considered as "probable deceased of COVID-19", which until now has not been able to specify the cause of the deaths.

In addition, Romo indicated that 6,944 people, of the 22,649 diagnostic samples taken since March 29, have been discarded for the disease.

The minister specified that of the positive cases for the coronavirus, 6,123 are stable and quarantined in their homes, 186 in hospitals in stable conditions and 184 in intensive care units with a reserved prognosis.

The Emergency Operations Committee (COE), which integrates the authorities in charge of directing the actions to face the health emergency due to the coronavirus, reported that the province of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, is the most affected by the pandemic in the country with 5,290 cases.

Guayas is followed by the province of Pichincha (whose capital is Quito) with 606 positive cases, Los R?os (227), Manab? (204), Azuay (154) and El Oro (149), among which more than one hundred patients.

Minister Romo recalled that this weekend a total restriction will be applied to the movement of vehicles, although transportation related to the health, processing and provision of food and medicine, and security sectors is excepted.

Ecuador reported its first positive case of coronavirus on February 29, on March 11 declared a "health emergency" throughout the country and five days later the Government ordered a State of Exception, with measures that limit vehicle traffic, the commercial and labor activity.

However, while a presumably strict protocol was applied, hundreds of people from all over the world entered Guayaquil. None of the travelers was controlled by the health and safety authorities.

In addition, Guayaquil is a dynamic port to which Ecuadorians of all conditions migrated, it is the engine of the private economy and reflects the complexities and inequities of Ecuador. In the heart of the city is one of the largest informal shopping centers in South America, selling all kinds of Chinese products, in warehouses run by citizens of that country: it was undoubtedly the center of expansion of the epidemic.

All in all, the country is currently undergoing massive and compulsory home isolation, as well as a fifteen-hour curfew per day, with the aim of preventing the spread of the coronavirus spread.

With information from EFE

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Coronavirus cases in Ecuador: April 12, 11:00, 7466 infected, 333 deceased
April 12, 2020 - 11h19

Starting Monday, April 13, Ecuador will test a traffic light map to define the most dangerous areas and provinces for contagion of the coronavirus. All provinces start with a red light and will be evaluated the following week.

These are the figures of the situation report No. 48, of this April 12.

Of the 23,635 laboratory samples, the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos reported that 7466 infected cases have been reached. In addition, 333 deceased persons confirmed with COVID-19.

There is an additional number of 384 deaths likely due to COVID-19 nationwide, the report said.

There are 7,118 cases discarded, with 501 cases of hospital discharge.

Some 6267 people are stable at home.

There are 196 stable patients hospitalized. While there are 169 hospitalized with a reserved prognosis.

Deceased by provinces

Guayas: 168
Manabi: 29
Gold: 27
Pichincha: 26
Chimborazo: 15
Santo Domingo: 8
Azuay: 7

Source: https://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/...dos-fallecidos