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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — The city of St. Louis is deconstructing a temporary COVID-19 morgue it never used, as St. Louis County's facility continues to operate, also with no bodies. The city's site is at ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Cowlitz County coroner said the country morgue and funeral homes are over capacity and staff are ... There have been at least 9,170 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Cowlitz County since ...

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 ...

The need for a larger morgue has never been more evident than in recent months when the Will County coroner’s office dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.Interim Coroner Laurie Summers said she saw ...