According to figures updated Tuesday, her office has handled 5,323 cases already this year, 2,551 of them COVID-19 deaths since the first confirmed coronavirus death in mid-March. It had 6,254 ...

A massive Covid-19 morgue built out by St. Louis County has held a tiny fraction of the bodies its capacity allows, prompting a county councilman to question its cost and whether alternatives ...

Shelves are constructed in a hospital parking lot to be used inside the portable morgue for those deceased from covid-19. Braulio Jatar/SOPA Images/Shutterstock.

Single-day COVID-19 death records have been broken every day for the last three days of the year, ... Six hours later, several patients had died and the morgue was at capacity, he said.

New York City is now operating a long-term “disaster morgue” in Brooklyn where bodies will be stored frozen inside trucks – a move designed to help funeral directors overwhelmed during the ...

The state has asked all hospitals to implement their emergency plans to prepare for possible COVID-19 overloads. Part of Abrazo's plan is to make sure there is enough morgue space, so the hospital ...

A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the coroner to ask the commissioners to declare an emergency to allow the county ...

Texas National Guard troops have been deployed to El Paso, Texas, to help with morgue operations as the city and county grapple with a COVID-19 surge. The Texas Division of Emergency Management ...

It’s unclear which, if any, of the people whose bodies lie in the morgue were infected with the coronavirus gripping the country, in this footage from inside Qom’s Behesht-e Masoumeh morgue.

Friday was the worst day yet for COVID-19 fatalities in California, ... The state agency said there’s a plan to set up an additional temporary morgue at the campus of the L.A. County coroner, ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the coroner to ask the commissioners declare an ...