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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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Copy of 2020-05-26T193402Z_1194490537_RC2JWG9KEA52_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-MEXICO-1590665324713 — 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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Copy of 2020-05-26T192702Z_1795486061_RC2JWG9VRU0O_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-MEXICO-1590665321567 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Chile_47907.jpg-5c0d8-1590665304262 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Peru_59995.jpg-467e1-1590665301916 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Bolivia_22784.jpg-f796f-1590665293514 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Peru_-_Collecting_the_Dead_49930.jpg-f3dd2~1-1590665297253 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Brazil_-_Denial_02087.jpg-f4e27~1-1590665287607 — 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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Copy of 010062-01-08-1590665290215 — 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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Copy of 2020-05-16T233010Z_1022591600_RC2ZPG9Q89J7_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-MEXICO-CREMATORIUM-1590665318599 — 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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20200528 graveyard — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Peru_-_Collecting_the_Dead_00540.jpg-89771-1590665307963 — 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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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Ecuador_46602.jpg-07d8f-1590665310884 — Funeral Workers remove the body of a homeless man who died in the street in Quito, Ecuador. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Brazil_-_Denial_74753.jpg-e3900-1590665313737 — 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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