With funeral homes already overwhelmed, police are converting the hall at Rungis Market into a makeshift morgue.
As the coronavirus death toll in France continues to grow, the country's police on Tuesday said the government will be converting part of the world's largest wholesale food market into a temporary morgue.
Police are converting the hall at Rungis Market, situated outside of Paris, into a makeshift morgue to store the bodies of the coronavirus fatalities in the region as funeral homes are already overwhelmed.
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