| Chicho said: Whats with the jump in Ecuador? 11k plus in a day, that's half their total cases in one day. |
Comparing their stats with a pic from the day before, GUAYAS jumped from 7391 cases to 15,365, most got a big increase compared to their previous total. They must have changed their way of reporting cases.
Ah, here it is
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/ecuador-test-results-are-in-and-confirmed-cases-have-doubled
An increased capacity to process coronavirus tests caused the number of confirmed cases in Ecuador to more than double in a day to 22,719, second only to Brazil in Latin America.
“It’s not a rebound, it’s the presentation of delayed results” that reflects greater capacity to carry out testing in more labs, Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said during a presentation of the data. “That’s good news.”
