The number of coronavirus cases reported in Ecuador nearly doubled on Thursday, from 11,183 to 22,160.
The country’s health minister,Juan Carlos Zevallos wgi announced this at a news conference said the sharp increase was not caused by a new outbreak but was the backlog of tests in the country’s laboratories, which left thousands of tests unprocessed.
Ecuador is one of the countries that has been hit hardest by coronavirus in Latin America. The country has the second highest number of cases behind Brazil, where more than 49,000 cases have been confirmed and 3,313 deaths.
