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Monday, 4 May 2020

'We're ready if we are needed': East London Mosque opens Covid-19 morgue

Mosque has transformed railway arches into mortuary in just over two weeks

The final few snagging jobs were still in progress at the end of a lightning conversion of railway arches into an emergency morgue as the first bodies arrived.

A smell of fresh paint hung in the air; a few toolboxes lay on the concrete floor. The nearby East London Mosque had transformed the space, normally used to store vehicles, into a Covid-19 mortuary in a little over a fortnight.

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from Islam | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2YxozKM

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