A man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle in a street in Quito, Ecuador, March 15, 2020. (Photo by Santiago Armas/Xinhua) Ecuador is registering a sustained increase in infections since June, when it relaxed its three-month-long quarantine. QUITO, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) Ecuador once again surpassed 1,000 infections of the novel coronavirus in the span of one day, registering 1,061 cases in the last 24 hours and climbing to an accumulated 222,567.