With over Seven Thousand, One Hundred and Sixty-One (7,161) COVID-19 cases and 297 deaths, morgues in Ecuador can no longer hold dead bodies as corpses are now left on the streets.
The cemeteries cannot hold the bodies and families who have lost their loved ones are being forced to keep the bodies in their houses, on the streets or even abandon them.
In videos and pictures seen by ABC News, long queues of families waiting outside the cemetery in the country’s largest city, Guayaquil, indicates how the Southern American country has been overwhelmed by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Coffins are transported to a cemetery in Guayaquil
In an interview with UK’s Guardian, Eduardo Javier Barrezueta Chávez, son of a man who passed away last week says “the authorities are just leaving us to die,” because several days after his father passed away at his home his body still lies in a coffin on the sitting room floor.
A narration in a video posted on Youtube by UK’s Channel 4 indicated that Guayaquil’s Mayor, Cynthia Viteri has now announced the construction of two emergency cemeteries to deal with the demand.
