The president of Ecuador, William Lassoconsidered this Wednesday “probable” that the country will be free of COVID-19 next May.
This was stated in the weekly space ‘Let’s meet for citizenship’, when asked about the speculation of the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzónthat in May Ecuador may possibly be the first Latin American country free of COVID, given the high level of vaccination and the drop in the rate of infections.
“Hopefully we will reach the circumstance that the minister warns in May, which is likely”, Lasso said before pointing out that Ecuador has reached vaccination levels, with two doses, close to 84% of the population over 5 years of age.
In addition, it has already started vaccination of children 3 to 5 years of ageas well as the application of booster doses, which takes about 21% of the population.
According to the official, the World Bank has taken the experience of Ecuador and has presented it in Europe “as a successful case in the vaccination process”.
Lasso said that the level of infections since December and the first weeks of February “has already broken the trend”, it is close to 15% or 17% and “in a week the contagion levels will probably be at 5%, he said.
“When that happens, we can say ‘absolutely normal life in Ecuador,’ beyond the fact that many of the measures adopted have been relaxed by the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE), “he noted.
“When that time comes, we have children under 3, 4, 5 years of age vaccinated; to more than 83% of the population with two doses, we can, Hopefully God allows it, to reach May and be able to say ‘we are now free of the pandemic’”, he insisted.
Ecuador added 4,028 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday and reached 804,348 infections during the pandemic, according to the Ministry of Public Health in its daily report.
Regarding the registration of deaths confirmed by COVID-19 during the pandemic, this indicator rose to 24,943 (27 more than Monday’s report), to which are added 10,124 “probable” deaths with the diseasefor a total of 35,067 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
The province of Pichincha accumulates the highest number of infections with 285,873 positives, followed by Guayas, with 129,935 (287 additional). (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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