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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.