Dr. David González Velazco, left, stands beside his brother-in-law’s casket outside Perches Funeral Home in Juarez, Mexico. El Paso hospitals reported that only 13 of 400 intensive care beds were unoccupied last week. It has added crematoriums, converted an El Paso branch into a “COVID operations center,” bought new freezers and turned an El Paso chapel and a Juarez funeral home into coolers. funeral director Richard VillaFuneral director Richard Villa meets with a family at Perches Funeral Home in El Paso. “We’re all afraid.”In Juarez, funeral workers take added safety precautions with the dead.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 11, 2020 09:31 UTC