Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2020 19:24:02 GMT -5
Morgues are so overfilled in Ecuador's largest city from the coronavirus outbreak that bodies are being left in homes or the streets
View of a body said to be laying for three days outside a closed clinic in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 3, 2020. - 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 COVID-19 coronavirus in the city and surrounding province in the coming months. STR/Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
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Bodies of people who died presumably from the novel coronavirus remain in family homes and line the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, several news agencies reported.
The city of almost 3 million people is now an epicenter of the outbreak in the South American country, The Washington Post reported.
According to CNN, it's not known how many of those who died actually died from COVID-19, and some in the city have said their family members died with symptoms attributed to the diseases but many have not been tested.
The Wall Street Journal reported that one man's body was left in the living room of his house for four days after he died. The family of Gerardo Ibarra, who was 72 years old, couldn't find anyone to take his body. Emergency services and funeral homes were overburdened with cases.
Ibarra was taken to the hospital after he had trouble breathing and suspected he may have caught the new coronavirus. A doctor told his family that the hospital didn't have room for him, and the man died in his home, The Journal reported.
View of a body said to be laying for three days outside a closed clinic in Guayaquil, Ecuador on April 3, 2020. - 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 COVID-19 coronavirus in the city and surrounding province in the coming months. STR/Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bodies-left-home-streets-city-ecuador-2020-4
Bodies of people who died presumably from the novel coronavirus remain in family homes and line the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, several news agencies reported.
The city of almost 3 million people is now an epicenter of the outbreak in the South American country, The Washington Post reported.
According to CNN, it's not known how many of those who died actually died from COVID-19, and some in the city have said their family members died with symptoms attributed to the diseases but many have not been tested.
The Wall Street Journal reported that one man's body was left in the living room of his house for four days after he died. The family of Gerardo Ibarra, who was 72 years old, couldn't find anyone to take his body. Emergency services and funeral homes were overburdened with cases.
Ibarra was taken to the hospital after he had trouble breathing and suspected he may have caught the new coronavirus. A doctor told his family that the hospital didn't have room for him, and the man died in his home, The Journal reported.
