Bodies pile up at hospitals and mortuaries struggle to find space as Covid-19 deaths climb in Hong Kong | South China Morning Post

The bodies of residents who died from Covid-19 are being stored on gurneys in hallways or beds inside accident and emergency departments at public hospitals as mortuaries approach capacity in Hong Kong. David Chan Kwok-shing, a representative of the Hospital Authority Employees Alliance, on Sunday said he heard that in some cases, a body remained in an A&E unit for a day before finally being transferred to the hospital's mortuary, which was already full. "The medical system is completely overwhelmed," Chan said. Dr Albert Au Ka-wing, principal medical and health officer at the Centre for Health Protection, revealed three public…