Wilson Tong, CEO of LifeArt Asia, left, talks to a reporter who tries out a catholic-designed paper coffin at Tong's factory in Hong Kong, Friday, March 18, 2022. Hong Kong is running short of coffins ...

This box factory in Sri Lanka is now making a special product - cardboard coffins. They are made out of recycled paper and cost a sixth of the cheapest wooden casket. With the country reporting record ...

Ecuador is rush-ordering thousands of cardboard coffins to try to cope with coronavirus victims otherwise left rotting in the street, officials say. The nation’s second city, Guayaquil, has started ...

COLOMBO, Aug 24 (Reuters) - At a factory in Sri Lanka's Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia city, workers use staples and glue to assemble long cardboard boxes, which will be used as coffins for some of the ...

About 6,000 people have died in Hong Kong this year from COVID-19. The city-state is running out of coffins. To make up for the coffin shortage, some companies are offering alternatives like cardboard ...

A Colombian businessman, Rodolfo Gomez, designed a hospital bed that can also serve as a coffin. Gomez developed the idea after seeing countries such as Ecuador suffer from an inability to bury bodies ...

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HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s COVID-19 outbreak has cost about 6,000 lives this year — and the city is running out of coffins. Authorities have scrambled to order more. The government said 1,200 coffins had ...