The corpses have been overwhelming Guayaquil, a port city of 2.8 million at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Ecuador.
The country has confirmed 2,700 infections and 93 deaths — 60 of them in Guayaquil and its immediate surroundings. But municipal officials there said they have recovered at least 400 bodies in recent days.Mayor Cynthia Viteri, who announced that she has tested positive for the virus, said the national government should be responsible for collecting the corpses.
On Monday, a former mayor announced the formation of a “crisis committee” of business, government and academic leaders whose goals include “resolving the transport and burial of the huge quantity of cadavers accumulating in the clinics and hospitals attending the pandemic.”“People are asking that some authority takes charge of the dead, but the lack of response means they are being left in central streets of Guayaquil,” he said.
The national nurses association said up to 370 nurses across the country are believed to have been infected and that five have died. But residents of Guayaquil, a bustling port city filled with open markets, were slow to take seriously restrictions imposed by the national and local governments.
This is a fake news. These caskets looks new and they are put on nice copper stands on the sidewalk? Wrapped in plastic? Go through all this troubles to do all that to be put on the sidewalk. It look like it's a delivery truck unloading to deliver caskets to a funeral home.
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we pray for the people of ecuador
that's horrible
Send meter maids home
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