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Omar Rodriguez, left, works with Joe Neufeld, the owner of the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home, to move a newly delivered casket into the Queens business, Friday, March 27, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. A funeral home in New York City has seen a steady stream of people who have died from the coronavirus. In just the past week, the funeral home has had services for almost a dozen people who have died, and is expecting more. For those mourning loved ones, funerals in the age of self-quarantine and social distancing are a far cry from the rituals of collective mourning that took place even a few weeks ago. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Omar Rodriguez, left, works with Joe Neufeld, the owner of the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home, to move a newly delivered casket into the Queens business, Friday, March 27, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. A funeral home in New York City has seen a steady stream of people who have died from the coronavirus. In just the past week, the funeral home has had services for almost a dozen people who have died, and is expecting more. For those mourning loved ones, …

March 27, 2020

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Closed caskets, empty chairs at funeral home in virus center
March 27, 2020 2:55 p.m.

Closed caskets, empty chairs at funeral home in virus center

NEW YORK (AP) — The caskets are often closed these days, the chairs for mourners largely empty at the Gerard J. Neufeld Inc. funeral home.