Out-of-hospital deaths associated with COVID-19 are registered again in Quito; in January there are already nine

As far as January 2022, this Wednesday 19 has been registered a corpse lifting peak outpatients associated with the pandemic.

Jose Guevara, coordinator in charge for COVID events during the pandemic of the Metropolitan Public Company for Comprehensive Solid Waste Management (Emgirs) of the Municipality of Quito, commented that between August and December 2021 they had practically no cases.

Their work focuses on collecting corpses of homes, public roads and health centers.

In the first 19 days of January 2022 they already have nine cases, of which three have been registered this Wednesday.

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At 06:00 there was a first case in the northern sector of Quito and another, at approximately 08:00, In the south. In both cases they are men. The first 77 years old and the second 27 years old.

At 11:00, he added, there was a new alert, through ECU911, of the case of a person who He died of suspected coronavirus. The characteristic is of a person street dweller, male, 52 years old.

Apparently he had been drinking on public roads and collapsed. It became a pre-inspection and it was determined that he did not have any kind of mark or violent death such as a knife or a projectile weapon, so It is presumed which was due to COVID-19.

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“We have permanent meetings with the metropolitan COE, where an evaluation of the hospital situation is made, we are seeing how is the behavior of hospital saturation, how are the bed spaces in hospitals, in the ICU areas…”, he said.

Of the nine registered cases, four correspond to older adults, that is, older than 65 years, two people between 50 and 64 years old, and three from 20 to 49 years old.