According to the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), in the first week of January there were 32 cases of confirmed and probable deaths from the pandemic.
The Federation of Funeral Homes, that brings together 500 establishments that provide funeral services of the 21 provinces of the country, feels again an increase in deaths associated with COVID-19 from mid-December 2021.
Sebastián Barona, the union’s national coordinator, compared September, October and November 2021, weeks in which they did not pay attention to deaths from COVID but to other causes of death, with the beginning of 2022, where there is already a increase in deaths associated with the pandemic, in its mostly older adults.
The normal death rate in Guayas is about 40 people a day and in Pichincha of 35, he maintained.
In one day, he added, they carry out between six and eight cremations of deaths from coronavirus.
“It makes us uneasy. It is still, in some way, far from generating that impact generated by the emergencies, the peaks of 2020 and 2021, where we do feel (…) that our installed capacity was exceeded“, He said.
He remembered that in July 2020 or May and June 2021 they did up to 300 cremations in a month.
For Barona, the vaccines against COVID-19 help to prevent infections from spreading to the greatest versus what happened in past months, when there were cases of people arriving at some hospitals, but the health houses had their critical units collapsed.
According to a report as of January 17, 2022, from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), almost 640 excess deaths, from all causes, Ecuador records.
In January 2021 there were 2,321 and in the same month in 2020, 595.
In the first week of January there was 32 people confirmed and probable deceased by COVID and 34 in the second week.
According to age group, of the 34 deceased 28 were over 65 years old, 5 people between 50 and 64 years old and one between 1 and 4 years old.
Of the 32 deceased, 22 are over 65 years old, 7 between 50 and 64 years old and 3 were between 20 and 49 years old.
Those figures, however, are subject to confirmation since they are elaborated with provisional information.
In days gone by, the deputy minister of governance and Health Surveillance of the MSP, Joseph Ruales, explained that of the total number of deaths that exist, for example, in the second week of january -which were 36, plus another 6 that were to be verified-, only three occur in the group of 20 to 49 years and almost all, 80% occur in the population of 50 and more years and especially in the one of more than 65 years.
Carlos Porto, data analyst, He stated that there is an upward trend in the number of deaths from official COVID-19 in Guayaquil, which are those who have had a diagnosis and a PCR test. In the last days of January it went from 14 to 16.
He added that the average per day of burials is 37 and you see 84, 85, so you estimated 38 the average excess of people in their 60s that could be associated with the pandemic.
Out-of-hospital deaths associated with COVID-19 are registered again in Quito; in January there are already nine
Funeral homes have also returned to their task of lifting bodies out of hospitals, either from homes or on public roads.
According to Municipality of Quito, that assigned one of its dependencies for the process, together with other state entities, so far in January there are nine cases of removal of corpses outpatients. The last one occurred on Wednesday in the historic center of the capital of the Republic.
The Quito council reported that it was a 52-year-old male person.
After a preliminary inspection It was determined that he did not have any type of mark or violent death such as a knife or a projectile weapon, so It is presumed The cause of his death was COVID-19.
Funeral homes have precisely already carried out, so far in the first month of the new year, four lifting of corpses: two in the Conocoto sector and two in the historic center of the capital.
In one week, 15,184 cases of COVID-19 are reported in Guayaquil, an increase of 24%. Hospitals begin to allocate more beds
The security protocol that is applied in these cases begins with the notification by the Municipality of Quito, the funeral homes prepare their assistance, go in their vehicles, remove the body, are directly cremated, the ashes are delivered to the relatives in a wooden urn without cost.
Barona considers that if citizenship continues going to vaccination There will be no increase in deaths.
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