QUITO – As the coronavirus pandemic wreaks wreak havoc in Ecuador’s capital, Quito, the government is deploying new cellular gyms to accentuate and relieve tension in a fitness formula that was once challenged again through an immediate accumulation of cases.
Quito has the COVID-19 hot spot in Ecuador, with a general number of cases that recently surpassed those of Guayaquil, the largest city of the time in the country, which suffered in March and April one of the worst epidemics in Latin America.
Quito now has 12,747 instances, and the total number of instances in Ecuador exceeds 82,000, according to figures published Tuesday through the Ministry of Health. Six hundred others died in the capital of the 5,584 killed in the Andean nation.
The government says Quito is in a “critical situation” while extensive care sets have reached full capacity. Authorities are adapting other spaces to care for lots of patients to avoid what happened in Guayaquil, where many patients died in their homes from the scarcity of hospital beds.
Authorities set up tents in Quito schools for immediate testing and diagnostics at cultural centers and a basketball stadium. Medical brigades sent through the Ministry of Health patrol high-infection neighborhoods for random testing.
“The first delight in Guayaquil was painful, but it helped us … to our capabilities,” Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos told state television. (Report through Daniel Tapia written through Alexandra Valencia edited through Angus Berwick and Leslie Adler)
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