A health care worker wearing protective gear transports a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of a hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 3, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS ...

The streets of Ecuador’s western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight – and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place. The coronavirus ...

Ecuador's economic capital Guayaquil is reeling from the most aggressive outbreak of COVID-19 in Latin America after the pandemic hit the city “like a bomb,” its mayor said. Cynthia Viteri has emerged ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador – Patricia Marin Gines said the stench was unbearable. “I cannot stand looking at him,” she said in April, referring to her 86-year-old father, whose body was laying on the floor of ...

Facing an overwhelming amount of corpses and shortage of coffins, residents in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil are using cardboard boxes to give their dead proper burials. Morgues, funeral parlors ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador – For journalists covering the coronavirus pandemic, getting the story comes life and death risks. There is perhaps no place where that is more apparent than in Guayaquil, Ecuador, ...

The abundance of bottlenose dolphins in Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil has decreased by around 50% in the last decade. Several rivers in Ecuador, as well as neighboring Peru, empty into the gulf, and it ...

QUITO, Ecuador — The corpses have been overwhelming Guayaquil, a port city of 2.8 million at the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in Ecuador. Over the last few days, several were wrapped in plastic ...

In two weeks, 1,900 bodies were collected from Guayaquil’s hospitals and homes for burial, a fivefold increase in the city’s usual mortality rate, according to Ecuador’s government. By José María León ...

The streets of Ecuador’s western city of Guayaquil are deserted, with few residents in sight – and a few dead, as bodies are being left in the streets of this overwhelmed place. The coronavirus ...