COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador

COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador
	10-99 Confirmed cases reported 100-999 Confirmed cases reported 1,000-9,999 Confirmed cases reported More of 10,000 Confirmed cases reported
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Ecuador
First outbreak	Spain
Index case	Guayaquil
Arrival date	14 February 2020; (4 years, 3 months and 6 days); Confirmed 29 February 2020; (4 years, 2 months and 3 weeks)
Confirmed cases	198,244[1]
Suspected cases‡	20,542[1]
Recovered	174,188[1]
Deaths	9,269[1] (+4,511 suspected deaths)[2][note 1]
Government website
	coronavirusecuador.com; www.salud.gob.ec/coronavirus-covid-19
	‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The COVID-19 pandemic was reported to have spread to Ecuador on 29 February 2020. That was when a woman in her 70s tested positive for the virus. Ecuador was described in April as the growing "epicentre" of the pandemic in Latin America.[3]

Deaths

The city of Guayaquil had so many deaths that bodies were left in the street.[4] Ecuador gave out cardboard coffins because the country had difficulty removing all the dead bodies.[5][6] The government was planning to build emergency cemeteries to dispose of the bodies which are left in the streets.[7]

Vaccination

In April 2021, newly elected President Guillermo Lasso said that his main priorities after being inaugurated would be to increase the COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country.[8] Lassos said he aim for bilateral talks with Russia, China, the United States, the European Union and Chile to try to acquire vaccines.[8]

Numbers

The number of deaths was believed to be higher than the official figure because not enough testing was being done.[9] A New York Times analysis found 7,600 more deaths had happened from 1 March to 15 April as the mortality rate spiked to three times as much as usual. That showed that the official death toll was lower than the actual death toll.[10]

Current number of cases by provinces

Provinces [11]	Confirmed Cases	Confirmed Deaths [12]
Guayas	11,705	1,059
Indeterminated area (Rapid Test)	8,937	–
Pichincha	2,096	105
Manabí	1,299	252
Los Ríos	1,026	76
El Oro	672	114
Azuay	569	24
Santa Elena	534	191
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas	389	39
Esmeraldas	290	43
Tungurahua	273	34
Loja	257	14
Chimborazo	256	66
Cañar	241	22
Cotopaxi	168	36
Bolívar	167	18
Imbabura	126	11
Pastaza	97	4
Carchi	96	8
Galápagos	70	1
Zamora-Chinchipe	68	2
Sucumbíos	65	3
Orellana	60	1
Napo	54	3
Morona Santiago	44	1
Ecuador	29,559	2,127

Notes

In total 826 bodies were recovered by authorities from homes with knowledge of presenting the same symptoms of Covid-19, amid a reported breaking point in Hospitals and Morgues

References

"Coronavirus Ecuador" (in Spanish). Gobierno de la República de Ecuador. Archived from the original on 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
"Casos de coronavirus en Ecuador, miércoles 13 de mayo: 30486 confirmados, 2334 fallecidos" (in Spanish). El Universo. 8 May 2020.
"Uncollected bodies lie for days in the streets of Ecuador the emerging epicentre of the coronavirus in Latin America". Stuff/Fairfax. 4 April 2020.
"Ecuador coronavirus: Bodies are being left in the streets in an overwhelmed city". msn.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
Phillips, Tom; Moncada, Blanca (2020-04-05). "Ecuador: cardboard coffins distributed amid coronavirus fears". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
Ecuador distributes cardboard coffins to cope with Covid-19 – CNN Video, 7 April 2020, retrieved 2020-04-08
"Ecuador builds emergency cemeteries due to coronavirus outbreak". Reuters. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
"Guillermo Lasso: Ecuador's new president faces uphill struggle". BBC. 24 May 2021.
"Coronavirus nightmare in Ecuador's main city Guayaquil – pictures". BBC. 17 April 2020.
Cabrera, José María León; Kurmanaev, Anatoly (23 April 2020). "Ecuador's Death Toll During Outbreak Is Among the Worst in the World". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
"Actualización de casos de coronavirus en Ecuador – Ministerio de Salud Pública" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-10.
https://twitter.com/Salud_Ec/status/1255896134024941571

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[3] In total 826 bodies were recovered by authorities from homes with knowledge of presenting the same symptoms of Covid-19, amid a reported breaking point in Hospitals and Morgues

[counter-1] "Coronavirus Ecuador" (in Spanish). Gobierno de la República de Ecuador. Archived from the original on 2020-04-01. Retrieved 2020-05-14.

[reportedbod-2] "Casos de coronavirus en Ecuador, miércoles 13 de mayo: 30486 confirmados, 2334 fallecidos" (in Spanish). El Universo. 8 May 2020.

[4] "Uncollected bodies lie for days in the streets of Ecuador the emerging epicentre of the coronavirus in Latin America". Stuff/Fairfax. 4 April 2020.

[5] "Ecuador coronavirus: Bodies are being left in the streets in an overwhelmed city". msn.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.

[6] Phillips, Tom; Moncada, Blanca (2020-04-05). "Ecuador: cardboard coffins distributed amid coronavirus fears". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-04-08.

[7] Ecuador distributes cardboard coffins to cope with Covid-19 – CNN Video, 7 April 2020, retrieved 2020-04-08

[8] "Ecuador builds emergency cemeteries due to coronavirus outbreak". Reuters. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2020-04-08.

[BBCMay-9] "Guillermo Lasso: Ecuador's new president faces uphill struggle". BBC. 24 May 2021.

[bbc-10] "Coronavirus nightmare in Ecuador's main city Guayaquil – pictures". BBC. 17 April 2020.

[11] Cabrera, José María León; Kurmanaev, Anatoly (23 April 2020). "Ecuador's Death Toll During Outbreak Is Among the Worst in the World". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2020.

[12] "Actualización de casos de coronavirus en Ecuador – Ministerio de Salud Pública" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-04-10.

[13] ttps://twitter.com/Salud_Ec/status/1255896134024941571