Скачать или смотреть Morgues in Romania struggle with pandemic dead

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The morgue at Bucharest's University Emergency Hospital in Romania's capital is struggling to cope with an additional number of bodies that need processing amid a rapid, deadly surge of COVID-19 cases which has all but crippled the country's ailing health care system.
Bodies lay wrapped in thick, black plastic bags, before masked hospital staff nail them shut inside wooden coffins.
Romania, a European Union nation of around 19 million, has fully vaccinated just 39% of adults compared to the 27-nation EU average of 75%.
Over the last two months, the Eastern European country has faced a record-setting onslaught of coronavirus cases and deaths — with hundreds dying each day of COVID-19.
On November 2, Romania hit a pandemic record of 591 COVID-19 deaths, more than 90% of whom had not been vaccinated, authorities said.
According to Johns Hopkins University, Romania currently has the fifth-highest coronavirus death rate in the world per 100,000 of the population at 262.
Today, more than 1,800 COVID-19 patients throughout the country are receiving intensive care treatment, more than 50,000 people with coronavirus have died during the pandemic, and more than 1.7 million have been infected.
Vaccination certificates are now required for various day-to-day activities, such as going to the gym, the cinema, or a shopping center.
For everyone, there is a 10 p.m. curfew.
Despite a drop in cases since restrictions were imposed, overworked and overwhelmed medics are not optimistic about the pandemic in Romania ending soon.

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