Ecuador President Lenín Moreno announced on Twitter that he is ordering a 50% reduction in his salary and the salaries of his entire cabinet due to the coronavirus outbreak, CNN reports.
In the announcement, Moreno said he arranged for a salary reduction for himself, the vice president, the cabinet ministers, vice ministers, governors and members of the National Assembly.
There are 24 provincial governors in Ecuador and 137 seats in the National Assembly.
Ecuador has 7,466 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 333 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.