QUITO, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador is close to controlling the COVID-19 pandemic if it can keep the positivity rate of the virus, as well as infections and deaths down, Health Minister Ximena Garzon stated Monday.
The official said that the positivity rate dropped from 61 percent at the beginning of the year to the current 5 percent, adding that "if we maintain this, we can say that Ecuador has controlled the pandemic" and become "one of the first countries in the region" to do so.
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