New York.- Hundreds of bodies of people who died in the worst moments of the crisis of Covid-19 on New York, for more than a year, they continue in refrigerated trucks.
In total, about 750 bodies remain in trucks parked in a port area of Brooklyn waiting to be claimed or families decide what to do with them, according to local media. The City and confirmed this Friday the office of the Chief Coroner of the city.
Last spring, the Big Apple was overwhelmed by the Covid-19 irruption, that quickly ended thousands of lives in the city and forced hospitals, morgues and funeral homes to use refrigerated trucks in many cases to keep bodies while families could bury their loved ones.
New York was also forced to carry out temporary burials in common pits on Hart Island, an area used for decades to bury unclaimed bodies.
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According to local media, 2,666 people were buried on the island in 2020, well above the nearly 1,200 in previous years.
This could be the final resting place for some of the corpses that still remain in refrigerated trucks, in case the families cannot be found or they request it.
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According The City, since April 2020 there have been hundreds of bodies preserved in trucks, with a figure that ranges between 500 and almost 800.
The municipal authorities place more than 27 thousand deaths confirmed by Covid-19 in the city since the outbreak of the pandemic, to which are added another five thousand, considered probable, for a total of more than 32 thousand victims.
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At the worst moments of the crisis, in April 2020, around a thousand deaths a day from the disease were registered in the Big Apple, which has just under nine million inhabitants.
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