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South Africa turns to temporary morgues as Covid deaths soar

South Africa Covid deaths

A worker carries a wood coffin at the Enzo Wood Designs manufacturing facility in Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 20, 2021.

Photo credit: Guillem Sartorio | AFP

By  AFP

The cold hits you first. Then comes the smell. 

Inside a refrigerated shipping container are 17 plastic-wrapped corpses, each bearing a yellow label reading "highly contagious." 

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