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Corona virus hits metropolis in Ecuador extremely: Corpses lie on the street for days

2020-04-10T10:07:33.347Z


The corona virus causes catastrophic conditions in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil: corpses sometimes lie on the street for days. A video shows terrible scenes.


The corona virus causes catastrophic conditions in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil: corpses sometimes lie on the street for days. A video shows terrible scenes.

  • In South America , the Ecuadorian metropolis of Guayaquil has become the focus of the coronavirus .
  • Video recordings show inhumane scenes: dead bodies sometimes lie on the street for days.
  • Hospital staff and undertakers are overwhelmed. Now the government has responded .
  • Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus * and the corona news from Germany. You can also find current case numbers in Germany here as a map *. The following recommendations for corona protective measures * are currently available.

Guayaquil - corpses on the street and completely helpless hospital staff - the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador is hit by the Corona * pandemic with full force. A shocking video on n-tv documents the situation there. "The bodies have been lying in the streets for days, the smell inside has just become too strong," say the residents. When the camera team films, people wave at them. Dead bodies are lying around everywhere.

Corona virus in South America: family burns corpse of a corona victim

The scenes are unreal, like from a catastrophe film. The camera also captures how a family burns the body of a corona victim over 80 years of age because of the severe decay. Then you can see in the video Mara Peafiel, the relatives of a deceased: "Many here have already called the undertaker, but they always only say: We are coming," she reports.

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According to media reports, corona deaths in Ecuador sometimes lie on the street for several days.

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Because the undertaker apparently cannot keep up with the many corona fatalities, the relatives themselves now bring their dead to the morgues. Or put the deceased on the street in cardboard boxes. The government is obviously overwhelmed . It is said that work will be done to ensure that everyone is given a worthy funeral. However, the doctors "unfortunately" declared that they estimate the number of deaths from Corona to be between 2500 and 3500 . The government is now trying to prepare for it.

2.7 million people live in the port city of Guayaquil - and there are already more corona deaths there than in Colombia and Argentina combined . There are various reasons for this, it says in the video from n-tv: On the one hand, among the almost 4,000 infected, there are almost 1,600 doctors, nurses and hospital staff - a good 40 percent. "I feel battered but I haven't been tested yet," says a hospital worker. "I am already 59 years old * and actually put my work here at risk," she continues. The woman had been working in the Guayaquil hospital for 35 years, but no one could give her and her colleagues a solution on how to deal with the Covid 19 cases.

Coronavirus in South America: Ecuadorian government has no control over the situation

In addition, the government in Ecuador is considered corrupt and incapable , the video explains. The military has now taken delivery of almost 40,000 masks . The vital medical material * was then in a warehouse for days - apparently only because something was wrong with the papers.

In the meantime , people have already fled to neighboring Peru from the virus . However, the borders have now been closed completely. The government has the "virus refugees" struck down . The large immigrant community was also doomed to the Ecuadorians. Patient 0 * was a woman who had visited her relatives in Spain *. She and her sister are now dead. And in Guayaquil, people are living under catastrophic circumstances.

Coronavirus in South America: Ecuador is recruiting 606 additional medical professionals

But the government tries to intervene. According to the Ministry of Health, a total of 606 additional doctors, nurses and nurses would be hired in Ecuador . 99 rural doctors were transferred from the provinces to Guayaquil, it said. So far, 4,450 people across Ecuador have been proven to be infected with corona . 242 patients have died . President Lenín Moreno also admitted that official figures are likely to lag well behind actual cases.

Read more about corona virus developments in Europe and the rest of the world in our news tickers. In Europe, the focus is increasingly on debates about possible exit strategies from the corona lockdowns imposed by the individual states.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Source: merkur

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