A Day In The Life Of Funeral Workers Around The World After The Coronavirus Outbreak

Funeral home workers at a crematorium in Lima, Peru, wearing protective gear prepare to load coffins into a waiting vehicle to transport to a public hospital in order to pick up bodies of deceased persons suspected to have died from coronavirus.

Funeral home workers at the San Juan de Dios hospital in Guatemala City wearing protective gear load the plastic-wrapped coffin of a 77-year-old woman who died from COVID-19.

Gravedigger Mohammed Shamim?stands in a New Delhi cemetery and instructs relatives of a coronavirus victim during the burial. Shamim is a third generation grave digger but now a shiver runs up even his spine each time he sees a hearse pull up at the New Delhi cemetery he tends. The coronavirus crisis has completely changed his outlook. "I've been burying the dead for the last two decades. But until now, I've never been scared for my own life," he said.

Alisha Narvaez, the manager, and Nicole Warring, a Resident Funeral Director at International Funeral & Cremation Services, a funeral home in Harlem, in Manhattan, New York City carry a deceased person into the basement area where bodies are stored and prepared for funeral services.

Employees of Funeral Gayosso in Mexico City, Mexico, wear protective clothing before transporting the body of the deceased suspected to have died from coronavirus.

Maryland Cremation Services owner Dorota Marshall and her husband Sean Marshall wear personal protection equipment while preparing the bodies of COVID-19 victims for cremation in Millersville, Maryland.

Funeral home workers push the coffin containing the body of a man into the General Cemetery in La Paz, Bolivia.

A cemetery worker covers the grave of a woman who died of the coronavirus disease in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico.

Funeral workers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, place in a casket the body of the man found on a sidewalk where he died. According to the residents, the body took about 30 hours to be removed.

Funeral workers in Quito, Ecuador remove the body of a homeless man who died in the street. According to criminalist expert Paul Erazo, the body presented symptoms related to COVID-19 but only a test would confirm if he died of coronavirus.