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Photos: How coronvirus changed mourning at funerals

Iran "Bang" Paylor, of Washington, left, is comforted by his friend Jewel Parker, during a socially distanced outdoor memorial service for his mother, Joanne Paylor, 62, of southwest Washington, at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland-Silver Hill, Md., Sunday, May 3, 2020.

Mourners attend a socially distanced outdoor memorial service for Joanne Paylor, 62, of Washington, during her funeral at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland-Silver Hill, Md., Sunday, May 3, 2020. Despite not having died from coronavirus, almost every aspect of Paylor's funeral has been impacted by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

With restrictions on the amount of people who may go into the viewing at a time, eight of the grandchildren of Joanne Paylor, 62, of southwest Washington, prepare to go into the chapel in one group during her funeral at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suitland-Silver Hill, Md., Sunday, May 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

In this photo taken on Saturday, May 2, 2020, funeral workers, wearing protective suits, lower the coffin of Semen Muchka, 71, who died of coronavirus disease, into the grave at a cemetery in Krynytsya, Ukraine. Ukraine's troubled health care system has been overwhelmed by COVID-19, even though it has reported a relatively low number of cases. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

In this Friday, May 1, 2020 photo, family members attend the funeral of a man who died from the coronavirus in the USA in east Jerusalem's Mount of Olives cemetery. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

In this Monday, May 11, 2020, photo, relatives of Munevver Kaya, who died of COVID-19, wearing face masks for protection against the coronavirus, offer their prayers during a funeral at a special section of Baklaci cemetery in Istanbul, that is dedicated for COVID-19 victims. Only a handful of family members were able to attend the burial of Kaya. Wearing surgical masks, they stood apart from each other, vastly outnumbered by officials overseeing the funeral, due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Leonardo Cabana cries over the casket of his father Hector Cabana who died of COVID-19 after a funeral home service given by Father Fabian Arias, Monday, May 11, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Relatives cry during the funeral of Chief Messias Martins Moreira, 53, of the Kokama ethnic group, who died of Covid-19, at Parque das Tribos in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Relatives cry during the funeral of Chief Messias Martins Moreira, 53, of the Kokama ethnic group, who died of Covid-19, at Parque das Tribos in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil, Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Mourners attend the burial of Ghulam Farid at Bluff City Cemetery following a funeral service at Masjid Al Huda (also know as the Midwest Islamic Center) on May 4, 2020 in Elgin, Illinois. According to funeral director Rezwan Haque, funerals held at Masjid Al Huda typically draw 150 to 500 mourners but, because of the coronavirus pandemic, families are informed that they are limited to 10. Farid's death was not attributed to COVID-19. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, funeral workers in protective gear prepare a grave at the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, for a woman who is suspected to have died of COVID-19, in Manaus, Amazonas state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

In this May 2, 2020 photo, friends and family shovel dirt into the grave at the funeral for Bruce Spotted Bear Sr. on his ranch near Pryor, Mont. Spotted Bear and his son Bruce Spotted Bear Jr. both died of coronavirus within a few days of each other. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

Members of the Harris County Sheriff's Department watch as helicopters fly over during a funeral service for Sgt. Raymond Scholwinski Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Humble, Texas. Sgt. Scholwinski died last week after contracting COVID-19. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Montepagano's parish priest Don Ferdinando Marrone blesses the casket containing the body of Annunziata Ginoble, mother of Sabatino Di Girolamo, mayor of Roseto degli Abruzzi, during her funeral inside the Santissima Annunziata church in Montepagano, central Italy, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Under new regulations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic only 15 people wearing face masks are allowed to attend funerals inside churches where they have to respect the distancing requirements. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Sabatino Di Girolamo, mayor of Roseto degli Abruzzi, left, touches the casket containing the body of his mother Annunziata Ginoble, before her inhumation inside the small cemetery of Montepagano, central Italy, Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Under new regulations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic only 15 people wearing face masks are allowed to attend funerals and they have to respect the distancing requirements. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Grave diggers wearing protective suits bury a COVID-19 victim as relatives and friends stand at a safe distance, in the section of a cemetery reserved for coronavirus victims in Kolpino, outside St.Petersburg, Russia, Friday, May 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)