Improvised morgues for Spain to cope with huge surge in COVID-19 deaths

Madrid's regional government is preparing to open an improvised morgue in the next few days to increase the city's capacity to deal with the growing Covid-19 fatalities.

The center will be set up in the Justice Campus, a building which officials said is designed to be the headquarters of Madrid's Forensic Institute. As such, the facility will have enough mortuary refrigerators to receive around 200 bodies.

"This is an exceptional and temporary measure to help the work of funerary services, diminish the pain of the families of victims and the situation happening in the hospitals in the region," the government said in a statement.

According to the Spanish Ministry of Health the center should be ready in the next few days, More than 2,400 Coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in Madrid.