The coronavirus pandemic has wrecked havoc across the world and put life at a complete standstill. More than a million people have been infected and close to 60,000 deaths have been reported.?
Governments across the globe are scrapping and taking extreme measures to contain the virus. The current situation in South American country of Ecuador is so grim that bodies are seen lying on streets as coronavirus overwhelms country's public services.?
The streets of in western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight - and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the open.
According to various reports, hundreds of corpses are rotting inside homes, on sidewalks, and in hospitals in Guayaquil, EcuadorĄ¯s largest city and one of the hardest hit in Latin America by the spread of the coronavirus.
The rapidly growing cases has made it impossible for the government to keep up the pace with the dead, and scared of contagion, funeral homes are refusing to handle the bodies.? ?
Leaders around the world have for weeks imposed increasingly tight measures to prevent their countries from being overwhelmed by the virus. For Guayaquil, that moment has arrived and it is a scary preview of what many countries in the region are likely to confront.??
Guayaquil's hospitals are overloaded with patients struggling to breathe and a growing number of health workers are also getting infected.?
Several containers have arrived in Guayaquil to serve as temporary morgues to accommodate the influx of bodies, and authorities say they plan to create space for "dignified burials."
But for now, some of the living in Guayaquil remain trapped in a nightmare, with no way to mourn their loved ones, not even through a proper burial.