As COVID-19 engulfs Romania, funeral homes struggle to keep up

As an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 fatalities engulfs Romania, funeral home owner Sebastian Cocos is struggling to source coffins and keep up with a faster pace of burials. But for him, nothing brings home the scale of what is currently the world's deadliest epidemic more than the mourners who keep returning. 'There were families who buried up to four people in two weeks, and that is not easy,' he told Reuters. Based in the central city of Ploiesti, Cocos is also president of a national funeral home association.