Last responders: Funeral workers in the age of COVID-19

On the frontlines with funeral workers during the coronavirus outbreak

Published: May 28, 2020 15:40 Compiled by Christian Borbon, Digital Content Editor

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Crematorium employees work at a cremation oven, as the number of deaths continue to rise due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at San Isidro crematory in Mexico City. Image Credit: Reuters

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Carlos Acuna, 52, a crematorium employee, works at a cremation oven as the number of deaths continue to rise due to COVID-19 outbreak, at San Isidro crematory in Mexico City Image Credit: REUTERS

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Funeral workers wearing protective gear as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, place into a hearse a coffin that contains the remains of person who died from the new coronavirus, at the San Jose hospital in Santiago, Chile. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral home workers wearing full protection gear against the spread of the new coronavirus carry a coffin with a corpse of a person who died from COVID-19 to be cremated at El Angel cemetery in Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral home workers wearing protective gear against the spread of the new coronavirus, wheel in a coffin containing the body of a man into the General Cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral home workers prepare to remove bodies of deceased persons who are suspected to have died from the new coronavirus in Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral workers move a coffin holding the body of an 86-year-old woman who lived by the Negro River and who is suspected of dying of COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil. Image Credit: AP

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A funeral service operative wears the personal protective equipment (PPE) necessary for handling the body of a person who had tested positive for Covid-19, at their funeral home in Manchester, northern England Image Credit: AFP

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Crematory workers using protective gear are pictured at a crematory in Nezahualcoyotl during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Mexico. Image Credit: REUTERS

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Funeral workers, wearing protective gear, prepare to bury the body of Andrii Zhyrkevych, who died of coronavirus at a cemetery outside Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Image Credit: AP

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Family members stand to the side as Piedrangel funeral home workers remove the body of a person suspected to have died from the new coronavirus, in Lima, Peru. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral Workers remove the body of a homeless man who died in the street in Quito, Ecuador. Image Credit: AP

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Funeral workers transport by boat a coffin carrying the body of an 86-year-old woman who lived by the Negro River and is a suspected to have died of COVID-19, near Manaus, Brazil. Image Credit: AP

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