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South Africa turns to temporary morgues as COVID deaths soar

South Africa turns to temporary morgues as COVID deaths soar

The cold hits you first. Then comes the smell. Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading “highly contagious.” The 12-metre (40-foot) steel box has been installed at Johannesburg morgue to help it cope with a rising tide of Covid deaths. The container can store up to 40 […]