The streets of Ecuador's western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight -- and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place.

The coronavirus pandemic is overloading the public services in the country's most populous city to a point of collapse. Hospitals have no beds left to accept sick patients, and morgues, cemeteries and funeral homes are straining. With no place left to put them, some residents say they have no choice but placing them outside.
It's unclear how many of the deceased are dying because of Covid-19. Many families say their loved ones had symptoms of the virus, while others only know the ill were unable to be treated at Guayaquil's overwhelmed hospitals.
We have been waiting for five days," Fernando Espana said in a video obtained by Reuters on March 30, as he complained about the struggles to have authorities come pick up his family member.
"We are tired of calling 911 and the only thing they tell us is to wait, they are working to solve this," he continues as he moves the camera through a window to show a black plastic-wrapped shape inside the home, with two fans blowing on it.The smell is too much to take. "It's the odor from the body that one can no longer handle," Espana's neighbor, Glenda Larrea Vera says in the same video, from across the street and behind a mask. "And we also have neighbors that are elderly. I have my mother who is 80 who is also having respiratory problems."
Video surveillance from last week obtained by CNN shows a motorcyclist abandon a body in the street. Hours later, a group of people, dressed in special hazmat suits are seen picking up the deceased, then driving off in a vehicle.
National figures show that Ecuador's authorities have collected more than 300 bodies from private homes in the city which has 2.99 million residents, according to the CIA Factbook -- between March 23-30.
The city is on the Guayas River and is the nation's major port. Brittanica.com calls it the country's most economically important city.
Jorge Wated, head of a joint military task force created to deal with Ecuador's coronavirus crisis, in a televised interview on Wednesday said that his task force had gone from "taking away 30 deceased per day to 150" over the past three days. Wated added that this was "independent of the hard work reactivated by the private funeral homes and graveyards in the country."
Source - CNN.COM.

A coffin containing the body of a person who is supposed to have died from Covid-19 lays wrapped in plastic and covered with cardboard, outside a block of family apartments in Guayaquil on April 2.

what to type like seriouly i don't know

Too bad, this shit is getting real

This shit is getting real by the day

Seun pls push this to FP. Let people see the need to take all possible preventive measures. May God have Mercy on Nigeria bc we don't have d capacity to face these tragedies happening in other parts of the world.

We should thank our creator for intervening in our matters indirectly, it's not by our doing but through his grace

For people that say covid 19 does not affect hot countries...Ecuador is a tropical country. So is Nigeria.

Stay safe. Wear Mask.

One of the most dangerous scary news is that an average Nigerian do not care.

They believe its white man disease.

Any attempt to educate them on what might happen will earn you very negative names.

When this thing finally hit Nigeria, e no go funny at all.

Wetin dey happen now na just the calm before the storm.

This virus don hit Nigeria already but NCDC is not aware, it' gonna bite harder when time comes

Passionate888:
When this thing finally hit Nigeria, e no go funny at all.


Wetin dey happen now na just the calm before the storm.

No, we reject this position and prophecy in Jesus name! If it gets worse than this, nobody will be spared. Let us instead continue to pray we don't experience more hardship in Nigeria. I know Nigerians can be stubborn and carefree, but we can't handle anything more than this