Arizona and Texas are requesting refrigerated trucks as their coronavirus outbreaks leave morgues running out of space for bodies

• Hospital and county officials in Texas and Arizona are requesting refrigerated trucks as the states grapple with a new wave of coronavirus cases and deaths. 
• The refrigerated trucks would serve as makeshift morgues to hold dead bodies.
• As of Sunday, hospitals in Arizona were at about 90% capacity. Texas is dealing with more than 124,000 active cases.
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Refrigerated trucks are being sent to Texas and Arizona in anticipation of a spike in coronavirus deaths in the two southern states.

They are among several states seeing a new wave of coronavirus cases at the moment. 

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