Corpses on the streets of Guayaquil , after the collapse of the Ecuadorian health system EFE/Diario de Yucatan , 1 Abril 2020 Data suggest that the number of death due to COVID-19 may be much higher than that officially reported – 10,939 people have died in six weeks since the start of March in the Guayas province , compared to a normal figure of 3,000 for the region , with nearly 6,000 more deaths than average reported in the province in the first two weeks of April alone.
There have been less than 6,000 deaths more than typical in Guayaquil , Ecuador within the first two weeks of April 2020 .