New York City officials have hired contract labourers to bury the dead in its potter’s field on Hart Island City
"For social distancing and safety reasons, city-sentenced people in custody are not assisting in burials for the duration of the pandemic," Kersten said.
A barge could be seen arriving at the island on Thursday morning with a refrigerated truck aboard containing about two dozen bodies. About 40 coffins were already lined up for burial on ThursdayWhite markers, each indicating a mass grave of about 150 people, are displayed on Hart Island in New York in 2018.New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday that officials had explored the possibility of temporary burials on Hart Island.
"That is so shocking and painful and breathtaking, I don't even have the words for it," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, though he added that there were hopeful signs, including slowdowns in the number of people being hospitalised and being admitted to intensive care. He said hospitals were standing up to the strain so far and the onslaught of patients has not been as big as feared.
Worldwide, the number of dead rose past 90,000 and confirmed infections reached about 1.5 million, according to Johns Hopkins University, though the true numbers are believed much higher, in part because of different rules for counting the dead and cover-ups by some governments.Get our Coronavirus Update newsletter for the day's crucial developments at a glance, the numbers you need to know and what our readers are saying.
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