Morgues are so overfilled in Ecuador's largest city from the coronavirus outbreak that bodies are being left in homes or the streets

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• Corpses remain in family homes and on the street in Guayaquil, Ecuador, as authorities are overburdened with a collection of the bodies of dead, several news agencies reported.
• The city is the epicenter of Ecuador's coronavirus outbreak.
• It's very likely that the country has far more cases than the 3,300 it's officially reported.
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Bodies of people who died presumably from the novel coronavirus remain in family homes and line the streets of Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, several news agencies reported. 

The city of almost 3 million people is now an epicenter of the outbreak in the South American country, The Washington Post reported. 

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