The seventh temporary mortuary has been set up in Britain to cope with the ‘significant pressures’ created by the number of coronavirus deaths. An overflow mortuary is being set up in Winklebury, Basingstoke, Hampshire to provide extra capacity amid the ongoing pandemic. The new facility will become operational on Thursday to support the four major … Read more
An overflow mortuary costing £4million has now been set up at Britain’s third biggest crematorium to provide an extra 20 per cent capacity for bodies in London, following the country’s worst day for coronavirus deaths. The storage units in large temporary structures at Breakspear Crematorium in Ruislip, West London, can hold up to 1,300 bodies … Read more
Man ‘comes back to life’ in a morgue as workers prepared to embalm him – hours after he was declared dead in Kenya Peter Kigen, 32, was rushed to hospital in Kenya after he collapsed at home He was declared dead by doctors and transferred to a morgue to be embalmed But the patient shocked … Read more
A Russian medical worker has revealed the grim toll that coronavirus is taking on the country as he filmed the bodies of dozens of victims packed into a morgue. ‘Corpses everywhere, corpses, corpses,’ the man can be heard saying as he gives viewers a tour of a corridor and dissection room that is typically used … Read more
Woman, 81, returns to life after spending the night in a Russian morgue and ‘being pulled back from the other world’ after doctors declared her dead Zinaida Kononova declared dead after surgery to remove intestinal obstruction She was taken to the morgue at Gorshechensky Central District Hospital at 1am At 8am, hospital worker ‘got the shock … Read more
A super morgue set up in east London to hold victims of Covid-19 has tripled in size in the last month as the Government extends capacity across the country to cope with 30,000 bodies. The site at Epping Forest has been extended three times to cope with the increasing numbers and can now care for … Read more
Traveller funeral is broken up by police as mourners flout social distancing rules after they demanded body back from the undertaker the night before ceremony – and drove it to the church in the back of a Transit van About 60 grievers – some swigging beer – moved on by Bedfordshire Police at Dunstable Cemetery … Read more
Dozens of coffins stored inside a temporary mosque morgue have given a rare insight into the scale of the coronavirus crisis which has now claimed the lives of 16,060 people across the UK. The images, which show the coffins placed on top of each other inside the mortuary built on the car park of Central … Read more
Largest wholesale food market in the world is transformed into a coronavirus morgue in Paris – while still selling meat, fish and vegetables Rungis market is the largest wholesale food market anywhere in the world It also now houses a makeshift morgue for Paris’s coronavirus victims Bodies will begin arriving on Friday while the market … Read more
A new morgue which can hold thousands of tragic covid-19 victims, including those from the Nightingale coronavirus hospital, is being built in East London. The mortuary, about the size of two football pitches, is being developed on forest land close to the City of London crematorium and cemetery and is expected to take the dead … Read more