Officially Ecuador reported 9022 cases of Coronavirus infections with 456 deaths. The country said 1009 recovered and 7,558 active cases are remaining. 26 people per million died, which is a relatively low number, but unfortunately, the numbers are not the reality this South American country is dealing with.
The number seems to be off by approximately 5,700 additional dead not reported with bodies piling up on the streets of Guayaquil, the second largest metropolitan in Ecuador. In good times Guayaquil is a charming city and a magnet for tourists.
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Residents of some indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are choosing to rely on the natural remedies used by their ancestors as they battle the Covid-19 pandemic.. Ecuador's indigenous people turn to ancestral remedies against Covid-19 | World | English edition | Agencia EFE
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By Domenica Enriquez
Miwaguno, Ecuador, Dec 23 (efe-epa).- Residents of some indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are choosing to rely on the natural remedies used by their ancestors as they battle the Covid-19 pandemic.
More than 3,200 indigenous people have contracted the coronavirus and 49 have perished, according to figures from Ecuador’s Health Ministry, but elders in this Waorani settlement on the edge of Yasuni National Park where nobody has died of Covid-19 have more confidence in traditional healing than modern medicine.
“We took natural, ancestral medicines, such as boiled lemon water and wild garlic,” Miwaguno’s leader, Juan Enomenga, told Efe.