For next May 3, after the Labor Day holiday, the Ministry of Health is expected to present information on the epidemiological situation in the country and thus make new decisions on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. 19 in Ecuador.
During a visit to Cuenca last Wednesday, the Deputy Minister of Public Health (MSP), José Ruales, announced that there are several provinces in Ecuador where “the pandemic has practically disappeared”. In addition, in the last two weeks the positivity of antigen tests has remained at 4% and of PCR tests at 5%.
This has led the authorities to consider that they have control over the disease.
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Ruales mentioned that Santa Elena is one of the provinces where this is happening. Other localities such as Carchi, Esmeraldas, Pastaza, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Sucumbíos and Zamora Chinchipe also maintain the trend.
According to figures from the Ministry of Public Health, with a cutoff until April 25, several provinces have registered few cases in the last 14 days, having a low incidence of the disease.
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The provinces that have 0 cases per 10,000 inhabitants (that does not mean that they register positive cases) are:
- emeralds
- Succumbs
- Manabi
- Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas
- Orellana
- pasta
- The rivers
- st. Helen
- Guayas
- Zamora Chinchipe
The Mathematical Modeling Center of the National Polytechnic School is one of the entities that weekly measure the incidence of COVID-19 in the country through the effective reproduction numbers (average number of infections produced by a case).
Within its scheme, it places the provinces of Pichincha, Manabí, Los Ríos, Tungurahua, Cañar, Azuay and Morona Santiago at a moderate risk (between five levels) of contagion, the other localities are at low.
For the week of April 21, only Cañar had a reproduction rate greater than 1. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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