Ecuador apologises for Covid-19 corpses left to rot on streets

[Bacchus4.0]

https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/04/581523/ecuador-apologises-covid-19-corpses-left-rot-streets

QUITO: Ecuador’s vice president Otto Sonnenholzner has apologised after scores of bodies were left on the streets of Guayaquil as the Covid-19 coronavirus ravages the horror-struck port city.

Residents had published videos on social media showing abandoned bodies in the streets in the Latin American city worst hit by the pandemic.

Authorities collected at least 150 corpses from streets and homes earlier this week, but did not confirm how many of the dead were victims of the outbreak.

“We have seen images that should never have happened and as your public servant, I apologise,” said Sonnenholzer, who is heading the country’s virus response, in a statement broadcast by local media on Saturday.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. Alas, I'm not entirely surprised

Ecuador has a well-deserved reputation for being one of the poorest countries in South America and Guayaquil has had the reputation of being one of the poorest and filthiest port cities in that part of the world.

The suffering people of Guayaquil deserve better. I don’t know how to give it to them.

[Bacchus4.0]

2. Ecuador has many good things going for it but Guayaquil isn't one of those

Actually thinking of retiring there in a while and catering business to to other expats down there
It is quite cheap and beautiful but Guayaquil is a hard "no".