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Temporary Morgue Erected In L.A. Parking Lot Uses 10 Tractor Trailers To Deal With Overflow Due To Record Covid-19 Deaths

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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services announced on Thursday that a temporary morgue would be erected in the parking lot adjacent to the L.A.

County Coroner’s building to handle the record number of bodies it’s seeing. The facility will include at least five 53-foot trailers supplied by the state and five more supplied by the county, along with an unknown number of “ground refrigerated storage containers.” An AP photo taken Thursday was reminiscent of images from New York last spring.

It showed two temporary refrigerator trailers at L.A.’s County-USC Medical Center hospital.Los Angeles County on Friday reported its first-ever count of more than 300 daily coronavirus-related deaths, at 318.

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