The Boston Globe published more than a dozen pages of death notices in the print edition of their Sunday paper.
The increased volume in the paper’s obituary section comes as the number of coronavirus cases have shot up in Massachusetts.
The newspaper’s Sunday edition included 16 pages, from A-13 to A-28, of death notices, a significant rise from both the same time a year ago, as well as in recent weeks. The Boston Globe’s paper on the third Sunday in April last year, April 21, 2019, featured seven pages, according to an archive of the paper.
The 16 pages of death notices is also up from the 11 pages that were featured in the paper a week earlier, and the Sunday before that had nine pages, according to an article in the Boston Globe discussing the “stark reality” of the situation.
The @BostonGlobe Sunday death notices for April 19 are 16 pages long. One week later. pic.twitter.com/1XhlgjK5ms
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) April 19, 2020
This Sunday’s death notices covered people from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Texas. Overseas deaths in Austria, Greece, Ireland, Canada, and Italy were also noted.
It was not clear how many of those people perished from the coronavirus, but many of the notes mentioned the deceased had battled the illness.
The state of Massachusetts has reported more than 38,000 cases of the coronavirus and more than 1,700 associated deaths.
