Officials in Ecuador have confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in the South American nation and Mexico reported two more to raise the country’s total to four.
Ecuador’s Health Minister Catalina Andramuño Zeballos says a more-than-70-year-old Ecuadoran woman who lives in Spain arrived in the country on Feb. 14 showing no symptoms of illness.
“In the following days she began to feel badly with a fever,” Andramuño says at a news conference, adding that she was taken to a medical center. The National Institute of Public Health and Investigation in Ecuador confirmed the virus.
The deputy minister of health, Julio López says that the patient’s condition was “critical.”
It is the second case in South America, following a Brazilian case reported on Wednesday.
President Lenín Moreno sends out a tweet urging people to stay calm, and the Interior Ministry announced it was barring mass gatherings in the cities of Guayaquil — where the infected woman was located — and Babahoyo.
— AP
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