In Ecuador, Grim Video Shows Bodies of Covid-19 Patients Left on The Streets

In Ecuador, Grim Video Shows Bodies of Covid-19 Patients Left on The Streets
Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 3, 2020. Picture taken April 3, 202 REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES)

More than a week after images of bodies being left on the streets of Ecuador went viral, there are still many families that are trying to bury their loved ones.

The iTechPost reported that images and videos started to surface out of Guayaquil, a port city located in Ecuador's Pacific coast showing the world just how serious the situation has become amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Watch grim video below: (Warning, it contains some upsetting scenes)

Due to the overwhelming death toll, hospitals and morgues have started to abandon bodies in the streets or even leaving them to decay in houses, cargo trailers, and even parking lots. The smell of these exposed corpses are starting to stick like bile in the throat as vultures flock above the city in hopes of feeding on human carrion.

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