According to this state portfolio, 24 cases have been confirmed and there would be an additional 27 to be confirmed.
For the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), the omicron variant is already from community contagion.
On a national scale, until this Monday, December 27, there are 24 cases, 18 in Guayas and 6 in Pichincha.
But the cases could increase. According to that state portfolio, 27 more can be confirmed and of these there would be in Guayas 8, in Pichincha 14, in Manabí 4 and in Chimborazo 1.
These suspected cases have been identified in the private laboratory network, but they are still in genotyping.
Last December 14th, in Quito, the first case of that variant, which is considered more contagious. It was a 48-year-old engineer who left the country to conduct research in Africa.
Second case of omicron variant of COVID-19 is confirmed in Ecuador; contagion was in Guayaquil
Three days later it became known that there was a second case, in Guayas. The second contagion of this variant, reported the MSP, occurred in Guayaquil and was not related to the first case detected in the capital of the Republic. It would have occurred in a social event.
The MSP, in a statement, added that it has identified a increase important in the number of positive cases of COVID-19, almost double, in the province of Guayas, between December 12 and 25. These went from 675 to 1,022.
Massive presence of users and waiting was registered in some vaccination centers against COVID-19 in Quito
“The crowds and social events registered in recent weeks, regarding the Christmas and New Year season, have influenced this reality, ”said that ministry.
For Esteban Ortiz, a research physician, the contagion speed it shoots up in Guayaquil, three times faster than the national average and four times faster than Quito.
“We are already with almost 1,000 infections days (reported) something that we had not seen since July 2021″, He indicated on his Twitter account.
The Government recalled that the anti-COVID-19 vaccination is mandatory and in establishments of attention to the public a document that so certifies it must be presented.
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