Bodies of
Coronavirus victims have been seen lying in the streets of the Ecuadorian
capital.
On Tuesday,
Forensics experts were pictured attending to the corpse of a 65-year-old man
suspected of contracting COVID-19 in Quito. The lifeless body was later loaded
inside a coffin when funeral home workers arrived at the scene.
Back in
April, a body was seen laying oustide a clinic for three days in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, while another was pictured outside Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital.
Ecuador has
more than 31,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, including 1,569 deaths. The
toll across Latin America and the Caribbean passed 15,000 on Wednesday, with
more than 280,000 cases reported.
Experts
believe that the pandemic will peak in Latin America in the coming days.
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