As an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 fatalities engulfs Romania, funeral home owner Sebastian Cocos is struggling to source coffins and keep up with a faster pace of burials.
But for him, nothing brings home the scale of what is currently the world's deadliest epidemic more than the mourners who keep returning.
With COVID-19 killing one person every five minutes on average this month in a country where the inoculation rate is worryingly low, he says activity both at his funeral home and across the industry has risen 50%."There is no comparison for ... what is going on now," said Cocos, who has been in the business for 12 years. "I recommend to everyone that they get vaccinated, otherwise they will end up in our hands.
"At the rate at which people refused to answer calls to get vaccinated, this fourth wave was predictable," said Andi Nodit, manager at Bucharest's Bagdasar-Arseni clinical emergency hospital. "...The size and gravity of the situation in the emergency room and the hospital is beyond any words that I can express."
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