Inside the trucks — a U-Haul rental and what seemed to be a tractor-trailer — were several dozen decomposing bodies. It remained unclear how many of the people found stacked in body bags inside the trucks at the Andrew T Cleckley Funeral Home had died in the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said. Some funeral homes have had to use refrigerated trailers, and others have converted chapels into temporary morgues, using high-powered air conditioners to chill the rooms. Funeral directors are required to store bodies awaiting burial or cremation in appropriate conditions that prevent infection. A Health Department spokeswoman, Erin Silk, said that alternate arrangements for the remains were being made by the funeral home.

Source: bd News24 April 30, 2020 02:37 UTC