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Relatives walk behind a hearse carrying a coffin inside the Monumentale cemetery, in Bergamo, the heart of the hardest-hit province in Italy’s hardest-hit region of Lombardy, Italy. (Luca Bruno/AP)

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The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday, March 21, in the U.S. and in Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.

By Associated Press March 21, 2020