US coronavirus epicentre of New York grapples with how to deal with the dead as the disease claims hundreds of lives every day
A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment wheels a body to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Centre, Monday, April 6, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
The trucks are storing bodies that are accumulating too quickly for funeral directors to pick them up directly from hospitals.Several undertakers interviewed by AFP said they were struggling to deal with New York state's coronavirus death toll of more than 500 a day."The majority of funeral homes do not have refrigeration or limited refrigeration," said Ken Brewster, owner of Crowe's Funeral Homes in Queens.
Marmo estimates that his homes are currently dealing with three times more bodies that normal and that burials will last well into next month. "Trenches will be dug for 10 caskets in a line. It will be done in a dignified, orderly and temporary manner. But it will be tough for NYers to take," tweeted Mark Levine, a Manhattan council representative.
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