QUITO 6 Apr (ANA) - Residents were even forced to use cardboard boxes as coffins as Ecuador's official death toll hit 172 with at least 3,500 confirmed cases.

Ecuador's vice president Otto Sonnenholzner apologised after residents posted images and videos of the bodies onto social media. 

Authorities collected at least 150 of the corpses earlier this week, but did not confirm how many of the dead were victims of the outbreak.(ANA)

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