Staff in nearby hospitals are struggling to deal with a surge in patients and protective equipment is in desperately short supply.
"My grandmother died alone," he tells me, his voice breaking."We didn't even see her and couldn't touch or talk to her. We couldn't give her that boost of morale to say, hey, you know, you got to come out of this. We need you to come out of this. There was nothing."Little over a week ago, his family were all together celebrating her 80th birthday.Now, half of her family have tested positive.
"The crematoriums really aren't letting anybody in," he tells me."The cemeteries are, for the most part, telling people to stay in their cars and just watch the burial from the gravesite."He drives us to St Michael's Crematorium.
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