Dr. Joseph Varon, 58, the chief medical officer at United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC), and a team of healthcare workers perform CPR on a COVID-19 patient at UMMC, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 17, 2020. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo
An aerial view of the Parque Taruma cemetery amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil February 25, 2021.
Health care workers place flowers on top a coffin to representing dead colleagues during a protest against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Brasilia, Brazil March 25, 2021.
Zaquiel Augusto da Silva, 82, waits for Sinovac's CoronaVac coronavirus disease vaccine in his room, as healthcare workers administer the vaccine to the elderly who cannot leave home, in the Rocinha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil February 12, 2021.
A health worker from St Thomas' hospital stands behind a wall being painted in hearts as a memorial to all those who have died so far in the UK from COVID-19, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease pandemic in London, Britain, March 29, 2021.
First responder Robson Felix da Silva, member of an Emergency Mobile Care Service (SAMU) team, resuscitates a patient suspected to have the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil March 24, 2021.
Hospital staff observe a minute's silence as part of a day of reflection to mark the anniversary of Britain's first coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, outside the Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool, Britain March 23, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Healthcare workers enter a room to treat homeless people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a hotel, rented by Prague city hall, where homeless people who contracted COVID-19 can convalesce, in Prague, Czech Republic, March 22, 2021.
A medical staff member uses a mobile phone in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated at the Clinique de l'Estree - ELSAN private hospital in Stains, near Paris, France, March 18, 2021.
Crematorium employees move a body before the cremation of a person who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Municipal Cemetery in Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico, Mexico March 12, 2021.
Madrid Emergency Service (SUMMA) UVI-3 unit's Dr Navid Behzadi Koochani treats a patient inside his home during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid, Spain, March 2, 2021. "These are situations that affect you emotionally... You're there the next day thinking over how fragile life really is and, on the other hand, how lucky we are to be alive," said Behzadi. REUTERS/Juan Medina
Relatives of Tereza Santos who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) react during her burial at Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 9, 2021.
Funeral coordinator Eddie Martinez pauses before moving some caskets at the Hollywood Forever cemetery as it struggles to keep up with demand during the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 3, 2021.
Health staff attends to a patient at the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) dedicated ICU unit of the Tras-Os-Montes E Alto Douro Hospital, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Vila Real, Portugal February 22, 2021.
A critical care respiratory therapist works with a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, February 11, 2021.
Lila Blanks holds the casket of her husband, Gregory Blanks, 50, who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), ahead of his funeral in San Felipe, Texas, U.S., January 26, 2021.
A healthcare worker is pictured at a swabbing station during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore January 25, 2021.
Sisters Carmel Matthews and Rita Ray visit their mother Rosalyn Redmond, 92, in a specially constructed outdoor visiting cabin with a perspex room divider to protect against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as care home worker Andreea Mateiuc hands Rosalyn the gift her daughters brought her on Mother's Day at St. Glady's Nursing Home in Dublin, Ireland, March 14, 2021. Carmel and Rita have not been able to hug their mother in over a year due to Government restrictions on social interactions.
Medical workers move a patient at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Sotiria hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Athens, Greece, February 9, 2021.
Tanna Ingraham places a sheet over the body of a patient who died inside the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., December 30, 2020.
Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York's Hart Island where the department of corrections is dealing with more burials overall, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York City, U.S., April 9, 2020.
Mourners watch grave diggers burying a person, who presumably died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the special purpose section of a graveyard on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, Russia June 26, 2020.
Officials wearing personal protective equipment set fires to bodies of people who died due to the coronavirus at a crematorium in Bangli, Bali, Indonesia October 10, 2020. Antara Foto/Nyoman Hendra Wibowo via REUTERS
A worker of the Funeral SOS of the city of Manaus, wearing protective clothing, prepares coffins amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Manaus, Brazil April 29, 2020.
People wait next to empty oxygen tanks to fill them up for patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside a private oxygen supplier, in Lima, Peru February 25, 2021.
An El Paso County Sheriff's Officer tries to block photographs from being taken as bodies are moved to refrigerated trailers, deployed during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths, outside the County of El Paso Medical Examiners Office in El Paso, Texas, U.S. November 16, 2020.
Mortuary employees transport the body of a person in an elderly residence following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brussels, Belgium April 14, 2020.
A police car stands at the corner as a coffin holding a dead body sits on a sidewalk after someone had left it there, amidst the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lima, Peru May 8, 2020. Picture taken May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
Coffins of people who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen in the Meissen crematorium, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Meissen, Germany, January 15, 2021.
The body of Valnir Mendes da Silva, 62, lays on a sidewalk of Arara community, where he died after residents requested help from the emergency service as he was suffering from breathing problems, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 17, 2020. According to residents, it took about 30 hours to remove the body. REUTERS / Ricardo Moraes
The body of a man who died due to complications related to COVID-19, is seen at a crematorium during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in New Delhi, India, June 4, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
A protective mask hangs on a cross at the Parque Taruma cemetery amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manaus, Brazil, December 31, 2020.
Coffins of people who have died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are seen in the church of the Serravalle Scrivia cemetery, which like many places in northern Italy is struggling to cope with the number of deaths from the virus that is growing every day, in Alessandria, Italy, March 23, 2020.
A worker of the Funeral SOS, wearing protective clothing, prepares to remove the body of Antonio Freitas, at his house, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Tancredo Neves neighborhood in Manaus, Brazil May 7, 2020.
Municipality workers carry a coffin at a cemetery complex provided by the government for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victims in Jakarta, Indonesia April, 22, 2020.
A car is seen between graves at Vila Formosa cemetery during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16, 2020.
Healthcare workers transfer the body of a deceased person onto a stretcher at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., April 8, 2020.
Mohammad Aamir Khan, an ambulance driver, changes his personal protective equipment (PPE) as a woman who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is cremated at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 11, 2020.
Smoke comes out of a chimney during the cremation of a person who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Municipal Cemetery in Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico, Mexico February 10, 2021.
Gravediggers work during the burial of Vacilda Pereira Queiroz, 73, who passed away due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at 28 de Agosto hospital, at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, January 17, 2021.
Mortuary workers Stuart Emans and Graham Cowper prepare a deceased person for a funeral in the mortuary at Poppy's Funerals in Lambeth Cemetery, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in London, Britain, May 4, 2020.
A hospital bed is seen next to the morgue of 'Hospital de Clinicas' during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in La Paz, Bolivia August 17, 2020.
A man is consoled by his relatives as he sees the body of his father who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), before his burial at a graveyard in New Delhi, India, June 8, 2020.
Workers wearing protective suits bury a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) victim at Pondok Ranggon cemetery complex in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 8, 2020 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Muhammad Adimaja/ via REUTERS
Alisha Narvaez, 36, the manager and Nicole Warring, 33, a Resident Funeral Director at International Funeral & Cremation Services, a funeral home in Harlem, carry a deceased person into the basement area, where bodies are stored and prepared for funeral services, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., April 2, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Gravediggers prepare the coffin of Antonio Marciano, 65, who is suspected to have passed away from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his burial in Duque de Caxias public cemetery, near Rio de Janeiro Brazil May 5, 2020.
A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), who volunteered to work in a cemetery, wears a protective suit, as he burns clothes they used for burial, near the new Wadi Al-Salam cemetery, which is dedicated to those who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts of the holy city of Najaf, Iraq May 25, 2020.
A worker digs a grave in a cemetery amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Manchester, Britain, January 25, 2021.
Municipal workers in protective gear prepare to cremate the body a man, who died due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in Ahmedabad, India, April 22, 2020.
Health workers wearing protective gear bring a dead body past a refrigerated container outside of Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 3, 2020. Picture taken April 3, 2020.
Funeral director and publican Jasper Murphy of McCarthy's Bar and Undertakers drives his hearse with a prepared coffin to collect the body of a deceased local man from hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in the County Tipperary town of Fethard, Ireland, January 31, 2021.
Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) move the body of a deceased person from a refrigerated truck trailer set up at a temporary morgue outside University Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 6, 2020.
El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office staff roll bodies that are in bags labeled "Covid" from refrigerated trailers into the morgue office amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in El Paso, Texas, U.S. November 23, 2020.
Multiple members of the medical staff in protective suits are needed to move an 18-year old patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in an intensive care unit at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, Italy, March 27, 2020.
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