HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s COVID-19 outbreak has cost about 6,000 lives this year — and the city is running out of coffins. Authorities have scrambled to order more. The government said 1,200 coffins had ...

About 6,000 people have died in Hong Kong this year from COVID-19. The city-state is running out of coffins. To make up for the coffin shortage, some companies are offering alternatives like cardboard ...

Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths in Ecuador's second city Guayaquil have led to a shortage of coffins, forcing locals to resort to using cardboard boxes, city authorities said Sunday. Authorities in ...

Some caskets have a little plastic tube, called a memory tube, screwed into its end where a funeral home can put identifying information, Goings said. In some cases, task force members have found the ...

Norman Ginther's business began with a flash of insight during the funeral of Pope John Paul II. It was April 2005, and as Ginther watched the pope's funeral on television, he noticed that the pope's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest ...

The cardboard coffins "will be a great help in providing a dignified burial for people who died during this health emergency," the Guayaquil mayor's office tweeted Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths ...