A morgue the size of two football pitches is being built near the new London hospital for coronavirus patients. The temporary mortuary is under construction on Wanstead Flats, in Manor Park, east London, near the City of London crematorium and cemetery.
The new 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale Hospital is only a few miles away and patients who pass away at the facility are expected to be taken to the morgue.
It will serve as a holding place for the dead before burials and cremations can go ahead. Building work on the complex got underway yesterday, with the site set to be ready within a few weeks. Have you been affected by the coronavirus outbreak?
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