Bodies being left in the streets in Ecuador

[Morphine Prince 109,654]

(CNN) - 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 this city's public services 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.

"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. 

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/03/americas/guayaquil-ecuador-overwhelmed-coronavirus-intl/index.html

 

[Maleficent 6]

is there laws against mass cremations or graves in Ecuador? Seems like the best (and cheapest) solution. 

[FFXIV WhiteMage 6,310]

I think cremation will be the best solution. In our country they have increased the number of crematorium  It's sad to have your loved ones burned and sometimes it's against the religious belief as well. 

[Adakam 2]

I saw some people from there talking about this on reddit, its a horrifying tragedy but lets clear up a couple of things, because it makes it look like people are dropping like flies and dying everywhere.

Basically this is just in a province of Ecuador called Guayaquil, the rest of the country is relatively fine and in quarantine.

The people that are dying in these cases, are not necesarily COVID victims, they are just people that died for multiple reasons, but apparently the problem here lies with the police and health service staff in the area, that are pretty much refusing to handle any corpse in fear of being infected with the virus.