Aerial view of new graves at Maria Canals cemetery in the outskirts of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Apr 12, 2020. GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador's economic capital Guayaquil is reeling from the most aggressive outbreak of COVID-19 in Latin America after the pandemic hit the city"like a bomb," its mayor said.
Coffins are seen stacked high on a pick-up truck and trailer as it passes a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Advertisement"Nobody believed that what we saw in Wuhan, people falling dead in the streets, would ever happen here," he said. Too late, the city went into lockdown as authorities imposed a 15-hour curfew and bodies began to accumulate in homes, and even on the streets.Guayaquil's authorities"are not the villains of the world," Viteri insisted.
She continued:"Patients are dying without ever having had a test. And there is no space, time or resources to be able to carry out subsequent examinations and to know whether or not they died from the coronavirus."The true number will be known once this tragedy, this nightmare, ends."