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    Morgues and cemeteries struggle to bury the victims of COVID-19

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    Morgues and cemeteries struggle to bury the victims of COVID-19

    Look: Heartbreaking scenes of the burials of coronavirus victims from around the world


    Published:  April 18, 2020 15:08 Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor

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    Relatives stand next to graves of coronavirus victims at a cemetery area provided by the government in Jakarta, Indonesia Image Credit: Reuters
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    A relative reacts before the burial of the journalist Abdollah Zavieh, who passed away due to coronavirus, at Behesht Zahra cemetery in Tehran, Iran Image Credit: Reuters
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    Municipal workers and relatives wearing protective suits carry the body a woman who died due to the coronavirus, for her burial at a graveyard in Chennai, India Image Credit: Reuters
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    Gravediggers wearing protective suits prepare to bury 67-year-old Ester Melo da Silva, who passed away due to coronavirus, at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil Image Credit: Reuters
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    Volunteers from Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and members of a medical team wearing protective suits, pray near the coffin of a man who passed away due to coronavirus, as they bury him at a new cemetery for victims of the disease on the outskirts of Najaf, Iraq Image Credit: Reuters
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    Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island amid the coronavirus outbreak in New York City Image Credit: Reuters
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    Funeral parlor employees carry the coffin of a coronavirus victim at a cemetery in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Image Credit: Reuters
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    A funeral vehicle stands in front of a morgue to carry a coffin of a coronavirus victim to a cemetery in Istanbul, Turkey Image Credit: Reuters
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    An aerial view shows graves, which according to local authorities were prepared in advance for potential victims of the coronavirus, at a cemetery in Dnipro, Ukraine Image Credit: Reuters
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    People offer funeral prayers for a man who died due to coronavirus before his burial at a graveyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh Image Credit: Reuters
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    A mortuary worker is pictured amid coffins, during the coronavirus outbreak, in Brussels, Belgium Image Credit: Reuters
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    Gravediggers wearing protective clothing prepare to bury 78-year-old Lelito Jose Martins, who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil Image Credit: Reuters
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    A funeral van with three coffins of people who died of coronavirus is seen at the Spanish muslim military cemetery before a burial in Grinon, Spain Image Credit: Reuters
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    Relatives wearing protective gear prepare to bury the body of a man who died from the coronavirus, at a graveyard in New Delhi, India Image Credit: Reuters
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    Gravediggers wearing protective gear prepare to bury 78-year-old Lelito Jose Martins, who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil Image Credit: Reuters
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    Gravediggers open new graves as the number of dead rose after the coronavirus outbreak, at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, in Brazil Image Credit: Reuters
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    A worker places flowers on a tomb of a person who died from coronavirus at the Chiguayante cemetery, in Concepcion, Chile, Image Credit: Reuters
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    Funeral home workers in protective gear remove a coffin containing the body of a man as the coronavirus overwhelms sanitary authorities, in Guayaquil, Ecuador Image Credit: Reuters
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    Coffins of people who have died from coronavirus are seen in the church of the Serravalle Scrivia cemetery in Alessandria, Italy Image Credit: Reuters
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    A priest blesses the coffin of a woman who died from coronavirus at her funeral in Seriate, Italy Image Credit: Reuters
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    A worker checks coffins, most of them containing the bodies of COVID-19 victims, in the parking of a funeral parlor in Barcelona, Spain Image Credit: Reuters

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