https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10619301/Morgues-overflow-bodies-Hong-Kong-deadly-Covid-wave-hits.html
Deja Vu? Hong Kong COVID wave sees workers in hazmat suits dumping corpses in shipping containers as morgues overflow
Hong Kong has recorded 4,600 deaths less than three months after new wave
Workers in PPE moved bodies into containers outside Fu Shan Public Mortuary
Funeral industry worker said soaring death toll has seen crunch in coffin supply
Morgues in Hong Kong are overflowing with bodies after a deadly Covid wave has forced workers in hazmat suits to dump corpses in shipping containers.
Workers in full PPE gear were seen moving bodies covered in black tarpaulin from a truck into rows of shipping containers outside Fu Shan Public Mortuary on Wednesday.
Hong Kong has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths less than three months after the highly transmissible Omicron variant broke through.
The bulk of the deaths has been from the city's unvaccinated elderly population.
A funeral industry representative told local media the soaring death toll had seen a crunch in the city's coffins supply, with only 300 remaining and expected to be gone by the weekend.
Leader Carrie Lam acknowledged the supply issues during a press conference Wednesday, and said two more shipments of coffins will arrive in Hong Kong from the mainland soon.
The shocking images come just five days after bodies were seen lying abandoned on stretchers next to living patients in a Hong Kong hospital.
A medic working at the hospital told Hong Kong Free Press the photo was taken inside the Accident & Emergency ward of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong and circulated on Friday.
The photo, reportedly taken in early March, showed six body bags lying on stretchers as bed-bound patients struggled to prop themselves up.
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