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The bodies of COVID-19 victims in a German city must be stored in a shipping container as the pandemic continues to spiral in the country.
GermanyThe Robert Koch Institute, the government agency responsible for disease control and prevention, added another 33,777 confirmed cases of coronavirus in its most recent figures, bringing the total to 1,439,938.
The death toll has reached 24,938 after another 813 were recorded, with grim figures after the country was placed in a new lock.
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Christmas shopping has been blamed for an increase in social contacts, and therefore COVID cases, in Germany
In Hanau, near Frankfurt, the bodies of people who died from the virus are temporarily stored in shipping containers that were placed as a contingency at the start of the pandemic.
Two victims are in the refrigerated container in a cemetery, and there is room for a total of 25, with the morgue of local hospitals already full.
Alexandra Kinski, head of cemeteries and crematoriums in Hanau, near Frankfurt, said: “If a person passes away and there is no room in the clinic, then he comes here and stays a while, until the deceased is taken to a last place of rest, for example here in the cemetery “.
Germany entered a lockdown on Wednesday following a resurgence of COVID-19.
A record number of deaths was reported Tuesday, with 910 new deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the pandemic worldwide.
Schools and non-essential stores will be closed in the run-up to ChristmasWhile private gatherings during the holiday period will be limited to five people from two households.
The hospitality sector will also remain closed, and the measures will remain in effect until at least January 10.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has placed Germany in a new lockdown
Meanwhile, the Berlin city government has announced that it will start implementing the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine to elderly residents in nursing homes as of December 27.
As a member of the European Union, Germany must wait for the European Medicines Agency to approve the jab. An announcement from the agency is expected on December 21.
Germany was seen as one of the most successful countries on the continent amid the first wave of the pandemic, but it appears to be suffering like the stings of winter.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested that an increase in social contacts in the middle of Christmas shopping is partly to blame.
It has the fifth highest case count in Europe overall, after France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain, and also the fifth highest number of deaths, after Italy, the United Kingdom, France and Spain.
