Clusters of coffins of coronavirus victims arrive every day at St. Joseph's Church in the town of Seriate in Italy. Priests give them a hasty blessing before a forklift loads them onto army trucks for the trip to the cemetery
Coffins bearing deceased parishioners no longer leave one at a time in a shiny hearse after a funeral every week or so.
When enough have accumulated, he and others priests give them a hasty blessing and then a forklift loads them on to army trucks to cemeteries and crematoria. With the national death toll topping 9,000 on Friday, Italy has suffered almost twice as many deaths as any other nation.
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