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In the United States, the second most bereaved country in the world by the coronavirus, New York (State of New York) begins to bury his dead from Covid-19 in large mass graves.
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About 20 people are buried here every day. Nicknamed the Island of the Dead, Hart Island, north of Manhattan, has been hosting the bodies of those that no one claims since the 19th century: without families or the poor who cannot afford a funeral. The rate of burials is frantic in this state of New York, epicenter of the pandemic with its 7,000 dead. Thursday April 9, still nearly 800 deaths have summer counted. A record. To relieve the overloaded mortuaries, refrigerated trucks receive the remains before the funeral directors come to recover them.
In this setting of despair, good news: hospitalizations and intensive care admissions have never been lower, especially thanks to confinement, says Governor Andrew Cuomo. The funeral directors are so outdated that the authorities in New York are considering carrying out temporary burials in parks. With more than 430,000 contaminations, the world’s leading power has the highest number of cases of Covid-19 in the world, and 16,000 deaths, Friday April 10. In front of the Mount Sinai hospital in New York, every day at 7 p.m., caregivers are entitled to the homage of New Yorkers. On the sidewalk, an artist has chalked his eternal gratitude to them.
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