Irishman Clive Anderson got an alarming letter from his local medical examiner's office last week. The letter said that New York officials were expecting 5,000 deaths due to Covid-19 and they needed his help. "Now, that puts goosebumps on the back of your head," he said.
Mr Anderson owns Pelham Funeral Home in Westchester County, about a 30-minute drive from Manhattan. The Cork native has been a funeral director for over a decade in the United States.
It was a direction he wanted to take since he was a teenager after his father died from cancer. In 2014, he purchased the Pelham Funeral Home from the children of its founder.