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Ms Carbon said the second wave is one hundred times worse than the first wave, and blamed the growing number of dead on complacent UK citizens. We re under an immense amount of pressure. We had a heavy day before the pandemic, but this second wave is so much worse than the first, and not enough people realise that, Ms Carbon told NCA NewsWire. If every single person in the UK adhered to government guidelines, we would get rid of this so much quicker.
Ms Carbon said she was staying back on weekends and late nights to keep on top of the exhausting workload. Pictured: Patients arrive by Ambulance at the Royal London in East London on January 18
UK sets new record for COVID-19 deaths as mortuaries warn they are being overwhelmed
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One is very heavy and the other is a little lighter.
Mortuary assistant Rose Carbon manages a small smile to herself as she adds the joke to an email for emergency planners at one of London s largest hospitals.
Then she gets on to the main content of the note tallying the dead that came in overnight and recording how few spaces are left in a mortuary that has already been extended.