Hospitals are full due to the coronavirus epidemic, with recordings of dead bodies left on the streets a few weeks ago.

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Ecuadorian police have collected more than 700 corpses from homes in the country’s largest city, Guayaquil, after hospitals are full due to the coronavirus epidemic and funeral companies are unable to bury the dead, the commander said Sunday. of the task force.

It was not known how many of the corpses collected came from patients with coronavirus. However, Jorge Wated, commander of the special corps, said that some 600 identified people from the collected bodies had already been buried in the city’s two cemeteries.

The worst case scenario here is in Latin America: as early as April, the media reported that authorities in the coastal city were forced to place bodies in refrigerated containers transported by sea, and images of bodies appeared on the streets. The government then decided on a special force.

According to the latest official figures, there are 7,500 confirmed infections in Ecuador, and 333 of them have died from the disease since the virus appeared in the country on February 29. 72 percent of infections were registered in the province of Guayas, including some 4,000 in the city of Guayaquil.

(The image in this article was taken in early April.)



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