The grim toll from coronavirus
Gravediggers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of 68-years-old Natalina Cardoso Bandeira, who passed away due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 3. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino
Hearses are parked next to refrigerated tractor-trailers, that are being used as morgues, for body transfer, outside Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York City, April 9. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Relatives of 68-years-old Natalina Cardoso Bandeira, who passed away due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), react during her burial at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, April 10. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Relatives of 67-years-old Ester Melo da Silva, who passed away due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), react during her burial at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, April 10. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island where the department of corrections is dealing with more burials overall, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York City, April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
A mortuary worker in a protective suit looks inside a coffin with the body of a person who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Brussels, Belgium April 9. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Medical staff members are seen next to a patient in the intensive care unit at the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy April 9. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
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, April 5. REUTERS/Mykhailo Moskalenko
A rose sits between the hands of a person who died of COVID-19, at a mortuary in Brussels, Belgium April 9. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Biohazard warning signs are placed on the coffins of people who died of the coronavirus at a mortuary near the city of Charleroi, Belgium, April 7. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Healthcare workers prepare to transfer the body of a deceased person at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, April 8. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
A relative of a person who died of coronavirus reacts as a funerary worker closes the grave at the Spanish Muslim military cemetery during a burial in Grinon, Spain, April 8. REUTERS/Juan Medina
Funeral workers remove the body of a COVID-19 victim from a hearse at a funeral parlor, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico April 7. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Gravediggers open new graves as the number of dead rose amid the coronavirus outbreak, at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, April 2. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Bodies are seen inside the Wyckoff Hospital in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, April 4. Handout via REUTERS
Funeral parlor workers wearing protective suits carry the coffin of 72-year-old Ilda Lira, who passed away due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, April 4, 2020. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
People wait next to coffins outside Guasmo Sur General Hospital after Ecuador reported new cases of coronavirus in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 1. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino
Coffins of people who have died from coronavirus are seen in the church of the Serravalle Scrivia cemetery in Alessandria, Italy, March 23. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
Funeral vehicles stand in front of a morgue to carry coffins of coronavirus victims to cemeteries in Istanbul, Turkey, March 31. REUTERS/Umit Bektas
Healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, April 4. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
People offer funeral prayers for a man who died due to coronavirus before his burial at a graveyard in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 6. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
Health workers are seen behind body bags outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital amid the spread of the coronavirus in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 3. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino
Gravediggers wearing protective suits gather at Vila Formosa cemetery, Brazil's biggest cemetery, in Sao Paulo, April 2. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli
Bodies are seen inside a makeshift morgue outside Wyckoff Hospital in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, April 4. Handout via REUTERS
Relatives wearing face masks stand next to graves of coronavirus victims at a cemetery area provided by the government in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 3. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Funeral workers wearing protective suits carry a coffin out of the morgue at Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganes, Spain, March 26. REUTERS/Susana Vera
Funeral parlor employees carry the coffin of a coronavirus victim at a cemetery in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 31. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera
A worker checks coffins, most of them containing the bodies of coronavirus victims, in the parking of a funeral parlor in Barcelona, Spain, April 2. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
People offer funeral prayers for a man who died due to coronavirus during his burial at a graveyard in Kochi, India, March 28. REUTERS/Sivaram V
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, April 8. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar
Pallbearers wearing protective masks carry the coffin of a woman who died from coronavirus at her funeral in Seriate, Italy, March 28. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
Roses are pictured on a new grave at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirus victims in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 3. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Men carry a body into a funeral home in New York City, April 5. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon
Gravediggers and workers of a funeral parlor carry the coffin of 72-year-old Ilda Lira, who passed away due to coronavirus, at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, April 4. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, April 3. REUTERS/Vicente Gaibor del Pino
Coffins of people who have died from coronavirus are seen in the church of the Serravalle Scrivia cemetery in Alessandria, Italy, March 23. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
Mortuary workers put the body of a victim of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) inside a coffin, in Brussels, Belgium April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Refrigerated tractor trailers that can be used as morgues are seen, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York City, U.S., April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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