The province normally sees 2,000 deaths a month on average. Ecuador as a whole has had 8,225 confirmed cases of coronavirus to date, according to Johns Hopkins University, though a lack of ...

"If the coronavirus doesn't kill us ... number of confirmed infections in the world. Ecuador's neighbour Peru, meanwhile, has more than 120,000 cases.

That’s according to Health Canada, which projects COVID-19 XEC made up nearly 20 per cent of cases in this country by Oct. 13.