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Cold containers for coronal disease outside the infection clinic in Huddinge.
Containers begin to be filled with corpses
Published April 22, 2020 at 9:13 am
DOMESTIC. Stockholm's ordinary mortuary is now full, and the corpse during the corona pandemic has begun to be placed in refrigerated containers.
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One month ago , Free Times was able to report that Karolinska Hospital in Huddinge had purchased
refrigerated and freezer containers that can hold close to a thousand deceased corona patients.
Other hospitals in the Stockholm area have since done the same thing - and now the containers are
being put into service, reports SVT News Stockholm. A new mortuary in the Globe area is also being
used.
The ordinary mortuaries are full now.
- We have discussed the alternative to using ice shelves and this is plan b. We do not want to end up in
a situation where we suddenly have full on our ordinary places and so we have nowhere to deal with the
deceased, says Joakim Jarnryd, responsible for handling the deceased in the Stockholm region, to SVT.
The authorities are appealing to relatives to pick up the corpse. According to the funeral law, you have
30 days to bury the body or carry out cremation.
- We understand that it is not so good to have a funeral in these times where you have to have social
distance. We pray very respectfully that you take care of the deceased and then you have a ceremony
later, says Joakim Jarnryd.
On Monday, with the help of new statistics from Statistics Sweden, Free Times could show that the death
toll in Stockholm was 144 percent during week 15. This means that 429 more people than normal died
that week than during a normal week.