'The liquid from decomposing bodies is being spilled into the streets,' says a Brazilian man in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
"The stench is unbearable," says the Brazilian, who made a video showing vultures flying over the city.
247 - A Brazilian engineer living in Guayaquil, Ecuador, made a video showing vultures flying over the city and described the atmosphere he is experiencing due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"I see vultures in the sky over Guayaquil and in the afternoon the smoke from bodies being burned in one of the city's cemeteries. Now, I'm living in an apocalyptic horror movie," said the engineer, who did not want to be identified, in an interview with... G1.
"The reports of dead people in the streets that you are receiving [in Brazil] are true... The fluid from the decomposing bodies is spilling into the streets, infecting everything. The stench is unbearable," says the Brazilian.
The municipality of 2 million inhabitants has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the country. There are 4 patients with Covid-19 and hospitals are overcrowded even before reaching the peak in the number of infected people. The collapse caused by the pandemic is so severe that families report being unable to locate relatives who were hospitalized and died.
The funeral system has also collapsed. Corpses take a long time to be collected, and there are bodies abandoned in public streets.
Mayor Cynthia Viteri stated that "there is no room for either the living or the dead" in the city's hospitals and cemeteries.
With 17,4 million inhabitants, Ecuador officially registers more than 7,8 cases of the new coronavirus and 388 confirmed deaths from coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University. However, the lack of testing to detect Covid-19 leaves more than 1000 deaths considered suspicious without confirmation.