The bodies of coronavirus victims will “likely” be buried in public New York parks as morgues become overwhelmed with corpses.
As of Monday afternoon local time, 130,000 New Yorkers had tested positive for the virus, with 16,000 of those in hospital, and 4758 deaths statewide. Nationwide, more than 321,000 people have been confirmed to have contracted the disease and over 10,000 have died.Manhattan councillor Mark Levine today announced that the borough was preparing to “start temporary interment” to cope with the COVID-19 crisis as morgues and hospitals struggle to cope with the body count.
“The goal is to avoid scenes like those in Italy, where the military was forced to collect bodies from churches and even off the streets.” “We are over capacity for the number of ventilators in the whole system … we are into plan B, C, D that we outlined,” Mr Cuomo said at his daily news briefing.US President Donald Trump speaks during an unscheduled briefing after a coronavirus Task Force meeting at the White House on April 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. Picture: Eric Baradat / AFP.Refrigerated trucks have been set up as mobile morgues throughout New York City.
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