Ecuador ravaged by coronavirus

An increased capacity to process coronavirus tests caused the number of confirmed cases in Ecuador to more than double in a day to 22,719, second only to Brazil in Latin America. | Above: People stand in line outside a shop near the dead body of a man who had collapsed on the sidewalk in Guayaquil.

A woman looks as the dead body of her mother is placed into a coffin after she died at home in Guayaquil. Officially, the death toll nationwide is 570, however the rush to test the living means that these are only deaths of confirmed COVID-19 patients. A New York Times analysis suggested that Ecuador's death toll is 15 times higher than its official tally of coronavirus deaths, highlighting the damage the virus can do in developing countries.

Health workers wearing protective gear are seen behind body bags outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil. The outbreak has ravaged the economy of the oil-producing country and overwhelmed sanitary authorities in the largest city of Guayaquil, where corpses remained in homes or for hours on the streets.

People wait next to coffins outside Guasmo Sur General Hospital in Guayaquil. According to current data, close to half of the individuals tested have come up positive. The pandemic has hit the country of 17.5 million people hard.

A body covered by a sheet lies outside of a health center of Ecuador's Public Health Ministry in Guayaquil. In the province of Guayas, with two thirds of registered cases, health authorities were overrun in March and April due to a big surge in fatalities, leaving some families with no other recourse but to drop bodies of the deceased in the streets in the hope that they would be picked up.

Pallbearers carry a coffin into a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador

A coffin wrapped in plastic is seen on the roof of a car ouside a cemetery in Samborondon, Ecuador

People stand next to a coffin outside a cemetery in Guayaquil, Ecuador

A bin full of medical waste is pictured on a street in Guayaquil, Ecuador

People wearing face masks wait with oxygen tanks at a private distributor that recharges tanks in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Construction equipment is seen preparing a new cemetery during the outbreak in the low-income community Monte Sinai, in Guayaquil, Ecuador

People mourn as a coffin is taken into the cemetery for burial in Guayaquil, Ecuador

A family member places his hands on a coffin holding the body of a man who had died at home in Guayaquil, Ecuador.