An Ecuadoran woman who was pronounced dead of Covid-19 suddenly woke up in the hospital, to the delight and relief of relatives who had identified someone else's body as hers and had it cremated.
Alba Maruri, 74, was hospitalised in March in Guayaquil, the Ecuadoran city hardest hit by the pandemic, with fever and trouble breathing.
She lost consciousness for three weeks and was declared dead on 27 March, relatives said. A week later, her family was shown a corpse in the hospital morgue, but for fear of coronavirus contagion did not get close to it.
The body was on its side, with the back showing, not the face. Maruri's nephew Jaime Morla said he thought it was his aunt and told hospital officials it was. "I was afraid to see her face," he