Without taking into account the excess dead who are 26 thousand throughout the country.
Ricardo Hidalgo, doctor-educator, indicated that Ecuador has surpassed China in the official figures of deaths from Covid19, without counting the probable deaths from the virus, because they did not manage to do the tests.
The expert explained that with the data on excess deaths, there are 26,000 people who died in the country, which means that a patient with a coronavirus is more likely to die in Ecuador than in any other Latin American country.
“In the country with 17 million inhabitants we are talking about one of the fatality rate of 7.6%, the highest in the world. Chile has a case fatality rate of 3.5%, Brazil 5% and Peru 4% ”.
He also warned the authorities that they cannot hide the death toll because over time what is happening in the health crisis will be revealed.
With this, he even predicted that infections and deaths will most likely increase over the months until October, and not only due to coronaviruses but also due to other diseases that are not being treated due to the overflow that occurs in public hospitals.
“I can’t understand the dynamics of the National COE” he said
He criticized that the Government has transferred responsibility for managing the pandemic to the Cantonal COE. The cantons do not even have the capacity to act because all the measures must be approved by the National COE.
The National COE insists on policies that are not based on scientific evidence: “The measures taken yesterday, for example, are irrelevant.”
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