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In coastal Ecuador city families wait with the mounting dead

by Associated Press
| April 2, 2020 1:03 PM

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Larrea died Monday after a week of high fever, struggling to breathe and steadily turning blue. Then a new nightmare began for his family. No one in their city on Ecuador's Pacific coast would pick up his body.

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