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The president's supporters gathered in Quito, waving flags, donning T-shirts with his image and holding life-size cardboard cut-outs of the incumbent president.

A red alert has been imposed in 15 provinces including the capital Quito.

The subway system in the capital, Quito, ground to a halt and traffic lights stopped working around mid-afternoon local time on Wednesday.

“In multiple locations where the virus has been detected in South America, we have consistently detected patterns of deforestation,” says Daniel Romero-Álvarez, an epidemiologist at International University SEK in Quito, Ecuador.

From a distance, it resembles a bird blind — or perhaps the concrete stilts that lift houses in informal settlements over volcanic hillsides around Quito, the Ecuadorean capital 20 miles to the east.