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Added on the 23/03/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Madrid, Mar 24, EFE, (Camera: Jesús Bartolomé).- The coronavirus pandemic has caused saturation in funeral homes, especially in Madrid, where the impossibility of meeting the legal deadlines for burying the dead due to the hundreds of deaths every day has forced the conversion of an ice rink into an improvised morgue. EXTERIOR FOOTAGE OF THE PALACIO DE HIELO (ICE PALACE) IN MADRID AND ARRIVAL OF A HEARSE.
Madrid's large ice rink, the Palacio de Hielo, has been converted into a morgue where the bodies of victims of the novel coronavirus recovered from hospitals and nursing homes are stored. This makeshift morgue was set up to help the municipal funeral home, which was unable to collect the bodies due to a lack of protective equipment for its staff. IMAGES
Laurel (Maryland), May 6 (EFE) .- An ice skating rink in Maryland is used as a morgue in Maryland, most of which died from COVID-19.(CAMERA: Edwin Ramírez)
Madrid, Apr 20, EFE, (Camera: Raúl García).- Madrid will close the morgue situated in the Palacio de Hielo ice rink on Wednesday, the first facility of its kind in the region to accommodate the dead following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. FOOTAGE OF THE PALACIO DE HIELO ICE RINK IN MADRID, SPAIN
Santiago de Chile, Mar 29 (EFE), (Camera: Esteban Gómez) .- The Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso, located 120 kilometers from Santiago towards the Chilean coast, warned of the collapse of its morgue due to the increase in deaths from Covid -19, which according to the report of the health authorities was 17 people last Sunday.FOOTAGE OF THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOSPITAL IN SANTIAGO DE CHILE