COVID 19: Ecuador marks its highest daily increase in deaths

Ecuador marked its highest daily increase in deaths and new confirmed cases of coronavirus yesterday. According to the country's National Risk and Emergency Management Service, the number of fatalities rose from seven on late Saturday to 14 on Sunday morning, while infections surged from 532 to 789.

Ecuador on February 29 acknowledged that the coronavirus had reached the country. A septuagenarian



who lived in Madrid and who had flown to the port of Guayaquil two weeks earlier became the country's first case of COVID-19.

The woman later died in a hospital. Like other Latin American countries, Ecuador has implemented curfews, closed borders, canceled classes and banned all flights in a bid to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.