S.Africa Turns To Temporary Morgues As Covid Deaths Soar By Claire DOYEN
The cold hits you first. Then comes the smell.
Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading highly contagious.
The 12-metre (40-foot) steel box has been installed at Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths.
The container can store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). Shipping containers have been brought in to handle an influx of Covid-19 corpses in hard-hit South Africa AFP / MARCO LONGARI We have seen an increase of around 40 percent (in corpses) across the country, said spokesman Marius du Plessis of AVBOB, a leading funeral and burial service provider in the country.
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Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading highly contagious.
The 12-metre (40-foot) steel box has been installed at Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths.
The container can store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). We have seen an increase of around 40 percent (in corpses) across the country, said spokesman Marius du Plessis of AVBOB, a leading funeral and burial service provider in the country.
Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading highly contagious.
The 12-metre steel box has been installed at Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths.
The container can store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius. We have seen an increase of around 40 percent (in corpses) across the country, said spokesman Marius du Plessis of AVBOB, a leading funeral and burial service provider in the country.
South Africa is the continent s worst-hit country in the pandemic, with more than 1.4 million coronavirus cases and 40,800 deaths.
Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading highly contagious.
The 12-meter steel box has been installed at the Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths.
The container can store up to 40 corpses, keeping them at a constant zero degrees Celsius. We have seen an increase of around 40 percent (in corpses) across the country, said spokesman Marius du Plessis of AVBOB, a leading funeral and burial service provider in the country.
South Africa is the continent s worst-hit country in the pandemic, with more than 1.4 million coronavirus cases and 40,800 deaths.