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Are the deaths in Guayaquil being politicized? 7:50
(CNN Spanish) - The Minister of the Interior of Ecuador María Paula Romo said this Friday that the count by the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) of coronavirus cases in the country, reflects "a part of reality" in relation to the true impact of the pandemic.
In an interview with Ecuavisa, a CNN affiliate, Romo assured that the COE “shows a piece of reality; It is not minimizing the reality of this pandemic, on the contrary, we as a government have been saying to the country for several weeks that this is very serious, that this takes lives, that this is very delicate. We do not intend to minimize the severity of things. "
Since the start of the pandemic, the COE reports 3,368 confirmed cases, 3,661 suspected cases, 145 deaths, and 101 "probable deceased" from covid-19.
Ecuador's Minister of Health explains the reality of the bodies on the streets of Guayaquil 1:25In Guayaquil alone - the epicenter of the epidemic in the country - in the past few days at least 450 deaths have been reported, although there is no official confirmation that the deaths have been caused by coronavirus.
On the other hand, this Thursday in an interview with CNN, Guayaquil councilman Andrés Guschmer said that in the city - according to his calculations - the number of those affected "must easily be above 35,000."
CNN contacted Guschmer this Friday to ask him on what he based his calculations. "I sat down and analyzed the data from the city," explained the councilor, "and compared with the mortality rate that the WHO indicated could be with the virus. Here in Guayaquil we will soon be bordering the 2,000 dead.
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Days ago, Jorge Wated, who leads the Joint Task Force and is in charge of building a graveyard for the burial of the deceased in Guayaquil, said that medical experts reported that "only due to coronaviruses" it is estimated that in the coming months 2,500 to 3,500 deaths will be recorded in the Guayas province.
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