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The municipal funeral home is using the burial mounds in the wake rooms to temporarily store the bodies in the face of the avalanche of deaths that occur in the capital. This measure has been in place since mortuaries were closed last week due to the prohibition of making funerals for the deceased.
The burial mounds of a funeral parlor are the cold rooms located behind a glass where the coffin or coffin is exposed during the viewing process. A municipal spokesman assures that "they are being used punctually to regulate the entrance of deceased in an organized way." "All the coffins (maximum four) that are there have an assigned cremation or burial time and their families are duly notified. In other words, they are far from being piled up there, everything is properly organized," they clarify from the City Council of the capital.
In addition, the municipal funeral home is using a refrigerated warehouse for the coffins of the Almudena cemetery where there are 70 niches conditioned in cold rooms.
Despite the high mortality in Madrid due to the coronavirus, the municipal funeral home continues to give a period of about 48 hours for the cremation or burial of the bodies. In the case of cremations, the municipal funeral home is using its Almudena and South Cemetery facilities 24 hours a day, where they have a total of seven furnaces that can make 70 cremations a day.
However, other private companies are giving a period of ten days to incinerate, and that is why they are moving the lifeless bodies to the crematoriums in Bilbao.
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