On Saturday, February 29 Ecuador became the third country in Latin  America  to report its first case of the new coronavirus in an elderly  woman who arrived from Madrid to the port of Guayaquil (southwest

"We have the first confirmed case of coronavirus in Ecuador," Health Minister Catalina Andramuño told at a press conference in Guayaquil, noting that the Ecuadorian woman arrived from Spain " where she lives without symptoms" on February 14.