Residents had published videos on social media showing abandoned bodies in the streets in the Latin American city worst hit by the pandemic.
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 coronavirus in the city and surrounding province in the coming months.
He said mortuary workers had been unable to keep up with the removal of bodies because of the curfew. Work at cemeteries and funeral homes has stalled, with staffers reluctant to handle the dead over contagion fears.
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