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epa08548295 A member of the criminalistic police protected with a safety suit and mask disinfects a taxi after the removal of the body of an elderly man who died inside with suspicion of COVID-19, in Quito, Ecuador, 15 July 2020. The 77-year-old man had presented symptoms of coronavirus in previous days, so his children decided to transfer him to a hospital today; he died inside the taxi in which he was mobilizing, according to Manuel Pazmino, of the Laboratory of the Criminalistics Unit of the Ecuadorian Police. The municipality of Quito has announced an increase in the level of contagion and saturation in the health care system in the city. EPA/Jose Jacome