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The head of the state’s funeral directors association fears New York City could soon see dead bodies piling up due to the surge in coronavirus deaths combined with limits on cemetery shifts.

New York State Funeral Directors Association director Mike Lanotte said religious cemeteries, including ones run by the Archdiocese of New York, have put protocols in place to protect staff working in cemeteries that have led to less manpower.

“They’re not able to bury as many people in a day as they normally would and that’s a concern because if there’s a large number of cemeteries that start to do this, we’re going to start to have — for lack of a better word — a bottleneck,” Lanotte told The Post.

“You’re going to have people’s caskets, remains, unable to be buried and that could create a backlog and a public health problem.

“No one wants to see pictures like in Italy of churches with caskets stacked in them,” said Lanotte, who represents 1,700 funeral homes statewide.

Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese, said the cemeteries are fully functioning.

“They have instituted safety procedures, including training cemetery workers on how to handle burials in this environment, and doing proper cleaning and disinfecting. And, they have split the workers into two teams, so that, God forbid, the members of one team get sick, the other team can continue to work. But, the burials are continuing as normal,” Zwilling said.

The cemeteries are closed to vistors to prevent crowding.

Some of the city’s funeral homes are already “stretched to capacity” and others are “helping twice as many families as they normally would,” Lanotte said.

“There’s also unfortunately been some funeral directors who have fallen ill from COVID, adding a little bit of extra stress to the system,” he said.

Lanotte added that the city’s morgues are “at the brink if not in a state of excess capacity.”

The city currently has space for about 3,500 bodies after adding mobile morgues to handle coronavirus deaths.

The mayor and other city officials have refused to comment on how many bodies are currently in city morgues, but Monday The Post reported that FEMA is sending 85 refrigerated trucks to store the dead.

Before the coronavirus pandemic hit, the state had 425 deaths per day, according to Lanotte.

Last weekend, there were 475 COVID-19 fatalities alone.

“In two days last weekend we more than exceeded our normally monthly average and that doesn’t include other deaths,” Lanotte said. “We’re anticipating that higher death rate for the foreseeable future.”