The city of Guayaquil has reported about half of Ecuador's coronavirus cases. Its hospitals are overwhelmed. A curfew and red tape have hindered undertakers. As a result, bodies of COVID-19 victims often lie for days, wrapped in bedsheets and plastic.
Men load a coffin onto a pickup truck in front of General del Guasmo Sur Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The port city is the most affected by COVID-19 in the country. Corpses lie in apartments for days and morgues are overcrowded. The city administration requested four refrigerated containers in which the corpses can be temporarily stored.Marcos Pin Mendez/Picture alliance via Getty Imagees
Guayaquil has registered about half of all Ecuador's coronavirus cases and patients have overwhelmed the city's hospitals. In addition, a nationwide curfew and bureaucratic red tape have hindered the work of undertakers. Jonathan Escalante, a city health worker, told journalists that one of the bodies he had been dispatched to collect had been in the custody of relatives for a week.
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