By LIU YINMENG in Los Angeles |
China Daily Global |
Updated: 2021-01-18 11:17
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Rob Karlin has been working seven days a week. Whenever he can catch some rest, he does, but the job of handling the delicate details at the end of another person's life has taken a toll on him, both physically and emotionally.
The rising death toll from the coronavirus pandemic in Los Angeles County, the hardest hit region in the US, is overwhelming mortuaries and funeral homes.
In Los Angeles County, the country's most populous county, the number of novel coronavirus cases passed 1 million on Saturday. On Sunday, that number stood at 1,004,322. Someone dies every eight minutes now in LA County from COVID-19, new estimates show.