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Ecuador, one of the Latin American countries most affected by the pandemic, registered a new record of infections by Covid-19 during the last week, according to data released this Monday.
The new cases of Covid-19 added 15,008 between Sunday 2 and Saturday 8 January, according to the daily reports of the Ministry of Health.
The weekly record of infections was 13,037, registered from April 25 to May 1, 2021, according to the American Universidad Johns Hopkins.
Ecuador, with 17.7 million inhabitants and one of the first foci of the pandemic in the region in 2020, reports 567,332 cases (3,205 per 100,000 people) and 33,709 deaths from coronavirus.
The nation is the seventh in Latin America with the most deaths from the pandemic, according to an AFP count.
The Ecuadorian Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, warned last Friday that her country faces “an epidemiological condition very similar” to that experienced in “the worst outbreaks of the pandemic.”
To face the wave of infections due to community transmission of the Omicron variant, Ecuador suspended face-to-face classes this week and reduced the capacity of public institutions to 50%, which will run until January 23.
Two weeks ago the nation imposed compulsory anticovid vaccination from the age of five, completing the immunization schedule for 80% of that population.
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