Body in Street sat there for days: Guayaquil, Equador: Coronavirus cases

A body outside a clinic in Guayaquil, Ecuador, had reportedly been lying there for three days. Officials have been overwhelmed and unable to care for the dead quickly.Credit...Marcos Pin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/world/americas/ecuador-coronavirus.html

Their first tested case was February 15th so they are one of the first Latin American Countries to have bodies piling up in the streets there now. There are only 17 million people in Ecuador and there are already 220 dead reported that have actually been tested. But, because this isn't a wealthy country most people are dying in their homes and the bodies left for days because no one wants to touch an infected body there. This is also happening in New York City where just on Tuesday at least 230 people died of coronavirus untested in New York city that one day and left in their homes until they could be retrieved and refrigerated before burial. So, they likely wouldn't ever be counted as having coronavirus. This sort of thing is also happening worldwide for people who don't want to die in a hospital or can't afford health care or don't understand exactly what is happening to them and think they only have a regular cold or flu. Many of these are dead in 24 hours to one week before they ever go to a doctor worldwide. But, many Latin American countries won't have the luxury of refrigerated trucks to refrigerate bodies to keep diseases from forming in their countries from dead bodies not buried quickly or cremated. 

So, you are going to see a lot of mass burials like you are presently seeing on Hart Island in New York Cities harbor areas for people's bodies that are unclaimed which would be the very old where family has already passed away or homeless people mostly or people who are scared of getting contaminated by their dead relatives in these times.

Here is a PDF in Spanish that shows the positive cases and deaths that had been tested as of April 2nd 2020. 

https://www.gestionderiesgos.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/INFOGRAFIA-NACIONALCOVI-19-COE-NACIONAL-07042020-17h00.pdf

Note: I think Fallecidas is the number of deaths of tested cases which is 220 at the time this was published around April 2nd 2020

Yes. I ran Fallecidas means deceased. I ran it through Google Translate to be sure.