Funeral directors have run out of space to store bodies during the third and deadliest wave of the pandemic with families waiting up to five weeks to bury their loved ones.
The National Association of Funeral Directors said that the situation is worst in the Midlands, where spare mortuary space has decreased substantially and the average wait from death to funeral is more than three weeks.
Funeral waits have increased in all regions sampled, apart from Manchester and Liverpool and it is believed that hundreds of firms have no space left in their own mortuaries.
90,000 extra funerals were carried out last year and more than 30,000 people died of coronavirus in the last month alone. January and February are normally the busiest times of the
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