FILE PHOTO: Patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) receive medical attention in the emergency area of the Quito South Social Security Institute, in Quito, Ecuador April 9, 2021. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador on Wednesday implemented a nighttime curfew and other mobility restrictions as a spike in coronavirus cases again overwhelms hospitals in the Andean country, which in 2020 experienced one of the region's worst COVID-19 outbreaks.
In 16 of the country's 24 provinces, only workers in the healthcare, food and other sectors deemed essential will be allowed to circulate over weekends and during evenings from Monday through Thursday, according to the decree signed by President Lenin Moreno.
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