Bergamo has had nearly 150 deaths from the virus, and families are waiting days before their loved ones can be laid to rest.
The chapel of a cemetery in northern Italy has been turned into a mortuary chamber as the town cannot cope with the number of people killed by coronavirus.
Bergamo, in the Lombardy region near Milan, is among the Italian towns worst affected by coronavirus. It has more than 2,000 confirmed cases - recording a jump of over 300 cases in 24 hours - and almost 150 deaths fromDoctors in the area have said they cannot cope with the rate of infected patients, likening the virus to an"earthquake".
The chapel of All Saints, next to the city's cemetery, has been transformed into a mortuary chamber, Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera and other Italian reports said.The adjacent cemetery has been closed to the public for the first time since the Second World War.
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