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.
“There were families who buried up to four people in two weeks, and that is not easy,” he told Reuters.
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 per cent.
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