Rotting corpses litter Ecuador streets as coronavirus spreads

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Coronavirus-ravaged corpses have been rotting in the streets of the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador — while others lay unclaimed in hospitals and clinics because morgues were filled to capacity, according to a report.

Municipal officials said that in the past few days, 400 bodies have been recovered in the city of 2.8 million people at the epicenter of the outbreak in the South American country, according to the Los Angeles Times.

But chilling images of strewn bodies and coffins waiting to be collected suggest the official toll of 93 deaths from COVID-19 in the country — 60 of them in Guayaquil — is likely far too low.

The country has confirmed that 2,700 people have been infected.