Ecuador's top industrial center relaxes COVID-19 restrictions despite sizeable outbreak

QUITO, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's southwest port city of Guayaquil, the country's main economic and industrial center, on Monday relaxed lockdown restrictions on mobility despite having one of the country's largest outbreaks of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Mayor Cynthia Viteri, who chairs Guayaquil's Emergency Operations Committee (COE), which manages the local health crisis, announced at a press conference there would be no more restrictions on vehicles in the city, one of the country's most populated.