FILE PHOTO: A woman mourns for a relative, buried in a mass grave for people who died from the coronavirus disease , during the reopening of the General Cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia September 24, 2020. REUTERS/David Mercado
Jorge Silva, Bolivia’s vice-minister of consumer protection, said authorities have found corpses strewn on the floors of garages, porches, and hallways of funeral homes, and he accused some owners of seeking to profit from the recent spike in deaths by taking on more corpses than they can safely handle.
But funeral home owners in El Alto, Bolivia’s second largest city, said many cemeteries had stopped accepting the bodies of COVID-19 victims, leaving them with few options.Bolivia is among South America’s poorest countries and the second wave of coronavirus cases has pummeled its ailing health care system, pushing many hospitals to the brink of collapse.
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