The morgue in Romania’s main hospital has no space for the dead anymore. In a stark illustration of the human cost of the coronavirus surge sweeping the nation, bodies of Covid-19 victims, wrapped in black plastic bags, line a hallway of the hospital in the capital, Bucharest.

Hundreds of people have been dying each day for the past two months in Romania, which has been among the hardest-hit in the current virus onslaught raging through Central and Eastern European nations, where far fewer people have been vaccinated than in Western Europe.

A country of 19 million people, Romania currently has one of the highest death rates in Europe.

Read the full AP story here.

Funeral house employees drag a coffin on a trolley as they arrive at the University Emergency Hospital morgue to take a Covid-19 victim for burial in Bucharest, Romania. — AP
Funeral house employees drag a coffin on a trolley as they arrive at the University Emergency Hospital morgue to take a Covid-19 victim for burial in Bucharest, Romania. — AP

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