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Ecuador: this is how the coronavirus has impacted Guayas 1:33
(CNN Spanish) - The Minister of Health of Ecuador, Juan Carlos Zevallos, reported on Thursday that the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus went from 11,183 to 22,160 after more than 10,000 samples that were dammed for logistical problems were processed.
Zevallos said that "there were a lot of tests that were delayed for analysis" and that after the sum of these results the number doubled. He insisted that this is not "a new outbreak" but that the evidence that was not processed was analyzed.
In recent days, Minister Zevallos informed the media that members of the health staff who were in charge of processing the tests at the National Institute of Public Health Research were infected with coronaviruses, which delayed obtaining results in a more agile way, as some had They isolated themselves and the staff was cut.