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The Boston Globe, an American daily newspaper, published 15 pages of coronavirus obituaries on its Sunday edition.

The Massachusetts-based newspaper’s grim coverage went viral on Twitter, with some putting attention on the severity of the situation and others criticizing President Donald Trump administration’s handling to the pandemic.

Italy was the first country that used obituaries for coronavirus deaths in mid-March when death toll was dramatically increasing. The Bergamo daily issued 10 pages of obituaries to raise awareness against the pandemic crisis.

The state has the third-highest case tally in the country with 38,077 and 1,706 deaths so far, following

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