Corpses piled up in Bolivia due to the second wave of Corona
Officials said that the bodies began to accumulate in Bolivia, where a second ferocious wave of the Corona virus has exhausted the capacity of funeral homes and cemeteries and raised fears that the overcrowding will turn into another major source of disease.
Corpses wrapped in blankets or even blue plastic bags filled funeral homes in the capital, La Paz, the hardest-hit area in the South American country.
Deputy Minister of Consumer Protection, Jorge Silva, said that authorities found bodies lying in car parks, hallways and hallways at funerals. Some of the owners of those homes were accused of seeking to take advantage of the recent jump in deaths by accepting numbers of bodies that exceed their ability to safely handle them.
Silva told Reuters, "This is a profitable business for these companies, but it also endangers the health of the population. He described the houses as" hotbeds of infection, "but the owners of funeral homes in El Alto, the second largest city in Bolivia, said that many cemeteries have stopped accepting the bodies of Covid victims. 19, which increased their suffering.
"We in El Alto have no place to take our dead," said Carmen Abaza of Taylor's funeral home.
Bolivia is among the poorest countries in South America and the second wave of Coronavirus cases has hit the already overstretched healthcare system, bringing many hospitals to the brink of collapse.
Bolivia has recorded 225,910 cases and 10,687 deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to a Reuters tally. In recent days, cases reached 80 percent of the peak of the first wave.
