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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Amelia Neath

LA finally buries 2,000 unclaimed individuals who died from Covid in 2020

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Nearly 2,000 unclaimed bodies of people who died in 2020 in Los Angeles during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic have finally been laid to rest.

A non-denominational mass burial ceremony was held at the LA County Cemetary on Thursday, almost three years after 1,937 individuals died of the infectious virus during the global pandemic.

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