Another 756 Italians were lost to coronavirus on Sunday.
As the death toll there continues to climb, mortuaries and crematoriums simply cannot keep up.
Coffins are waiting in churches, or being stacked into refrigerated trucks.
Rare access inside a hospital in Lombardy shows frontline medics are exhausted by the relentless battle.
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