QUITO (Ecuador), April 3 — Troops and police in Ecuador have collected at least 150 bodies from streets and homes in the country’s most populous city Guayaquil amid warnings that as many as 3,500 people could die of the coronavirus in the city and surrounding province in the coming months. A...
A woman is helped to enter the emergency room of Guasmo Sur General Hospital after Ecuador reported new cases of coronavirus disease in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 1, 2020. — Reuters pic
Residents had published videos on social media showing abandoned bodies in the streets in the Latin American city worst hit by the pandemic. “We acknowledge any errors and apologise to those who had to wait days for their loved ones to be taken away,” Wated said. Ecuador is the Latin American country worst hit by the virus after Brazil, with more than 3,160 infections and 120 deaths by Thursday morning.
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