Manila crematorium handles extra volume during COVID-19 pandemic

A worker in a protective suit, used due to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, waits outside the crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours in Manila. Most of the Philippines is under quarantine to contain the spread of the coronavirus that has infected over 7,000 people and killed at least 500 in the country.

Crematorium personnel wearing protecting suits carry a cadaver inside a crematorium facility in Manila.

A worker (C) cleans the crematory furnace as a personnel in protective suits look on in preparation for the next cadaver to be cremated at a crematorium facility in Manila.

A worker (behind) cleans a crematory furnace as a member of staff (R) in a protective suit looks on in preparation for the next cadaver at a crematorium facility in Manila.

A worker in a protective suit checks the cremation chamber through a small peephole in the furnace at a crematorium facility.

A worker in a protective suit looks at a casket which was used to transport a deceased person.

Workers in protective suits wait outside a crematorium facility as the cremation process takes some two hours.

A worker in protective suit checks on the chamber at a crematory facility in Manila.

A funeral van driver wearing a face mask passes by the crematorium facility in Manila.

Personnel in protective suits prepare to move a body inside the crematory chambers at a crematorium facility in Manila.

A priest blesses the body of a probable COVID-19 victim before it is cremated at a facility in Manila.

A priest blesses the body of a probable COVID-19 victim before it is cremated.

Children run past used caskets at a crematorium facility in Manila.