Ecuador registers decrease in hospital occupancy due to COVID-19

After almost a month, Ecuador registers a daily decrease in the number of hospitalized by COVID-19. This Thursday, May 13, 2021, the country has 1,869 internees: 1,275 are stable and 594 with a reserved forecast.

It is the fourth consecutive day with a reduction in hospital occupancy, after 20 days of the state of emergency in 16 provinces.

The number of hospitalized patients skyrocketed on April 20, when it registered for the first time more than 2,000 internees. Since then, the number has risen to the highest peak on April 25, when there were 2,123 patients. As an effect of the reduction in hospitalized patients, the waiting list, especially beds in Intensive Care Units (ICU), has also been reduced to less than 200 people, when it even reached almost 400 waiting.

This Thursday, 1,151 new infections and 93 more deaths were registered in the last 24 hours. The country reaches 405,783 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 19,442 deaths due to the pandemic.

Regarding the number of recovered patients, the figure is 342,878, which represents 85.66% of the total infected. In the last week, from May 3 to 9, there were 13,296 more people who overcame the disease.

Pichincha registers 415 new infections and four more deaths in one day. The province has a total of 143,419 diagnosed with the virus and 3,207 deaths. Quito adds 393 more infected and amounts to 132,566 cases in the Ecuadorian capital.

While the number of vaccinated, until May 9, is 1,024,121 people who received the first dose and 265,841 people were inoculated with the two corresponding doses.

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