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Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead as families struggle with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths.
The country has been dealing with a major coronavirus outbreak wherein families have been struggling with funeral arrangements amid a rise in Covid-19 deaths in the country.
Health officials in South Korea have instructed crematories to burn more bodies per day and funeral homes to add more refrigerators to store the dead as families struggle with funeral arrangements amid a rise in COVID-19 deaths.
Officials have already allowed the 60 crematories across the country to burn for longer hours starting last week, which raised their combined capacity from around 1,000 to 1,400 cremations per day.