A Venezuelan immigrant makes a plea for money on a street corner to help him and his family return home to Venezuela amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 20, 2020. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) - Venezuelan migrants in Ecuador are setting out on perilous journeys to return to their crisis-stricken homeland or to join family in other Latin American countries as a lockdown meant to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus has left them without work.
Ecuador, with a population of 17.4 million, has over 10,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and more than 500 deaths.
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