The rising toll of Covid-19 deaths is overwhelming the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, where desperate relatives of one apparent victim of the pandemic left his coffin in the street for several hours to protest against difficulties in getting him buried.
Neighbour Remberto Arnez said the 62-year-old man had died on Sunday and his body had been in his home ever since, “but that’s risky because of the possible contagion”.
After a few hours, funeral workers turned up and took the coffin to a cemetery.
“This is collapsing the police personnel and funeral workers” in the city of some 630,000 people.
The Andean nation has reported 36,818 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 1,320 deaths.
