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Mobile Crematory Aims to Help Bolivia Deal with Surge in COVID Deaths

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   A group of entrepreneurs believe their mobile crematorium is
   thesolution toBolivia's surge in coronavirus deaths.

   Carlos Ayo, an environmental engineer, who is part of the group said,
   there are instances when dozens of bodies piled up in the street in
   Bolivia because families do not have the resources or aren't finding
   places to bury or crematethe bodies ofloved ones and they end up
   throwing them in the streets to avoid contaminating themselves.

   Ayo says the mobile crematoryrepresents away of giving something back
   to his homeland.

   The group hauls the furnaces to communities that do not have
   theresources tomeet the increasing demands brought on theCOVID-19
   pandemic.

   The Associated Press said, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, one of
   thehard-hitcities, bodieswere placed in the streets because of a break
   downin funeralservices.

   So far, more than 3,200 people have died of the coronavirus in Bolivia
   and more than 81,000 people have been infected with the virus.

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