Bodies found crammed in 'makeshift morgue' at coronavirus-hit nursing home in New Jersey

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New Jersey's Governor says he is outraged and heartbroken after police discover more than a dozen bodies piled up in a nursing home hit by a COVID-19 outbreak.

Police in the United States, acting on an anonymous tip, have found more than a dozen bodies piled up at a nursing home in New Jersey.At least 17 bodies were found inside a nursing home morgue, after police received an anonymous tip-offThe state will conduct a review in all long-term care facilities that have experienced a disproportionate number of deaths during the COVID outbreak

Police had been responding to a tip-off that a body was being stored in a shed, The New York Times reported. Breaking down the latest news and research to understand how the world is living through an epidemic, this is the ABC's Coronacast podcast."I am also outraged that bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility.

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