New York: more than 650 bodies in refrigerated trucks still await burial

Hundreds of bodies of deceased people During the peak of the pandemic, last spring, they are still deposited in refrigerated trucks. These vehicles full of corpses can be located in Brooklyn, one of the 5 neighborhoods of the state of New York. The number of bodies is around 650, as reported Forbes, and they belong to individuals who were not “claimed” or could not afford a proper burial.

Refrigerated trucks were repurposed as emergency morgues during the most devastating period of the outbreak. The revelation and / or “discovery” of these bodies, which are still awaiting burial, occurs when the city passes the second wave.

New York: dozens of bodies were found piled up in trucks

In response to the increase in infections, the Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio ordered the closure of public schools indefinitely, being another of the restrictions in an attempt to contain the virus.

The situation is also particularly serious in Step, Texas, where the mayor Dee Margo requested and obtained the intervention of the National Guard to help county morgues, overwhelmed by the increase in COVID deaths.

New York: schools close to combat Covid during the second wave of infections

In turn, the pandemic does not give way to the United States, which, on average, has registered more than 110,000 cases a day in the last month, with peaks up to 200.000. Nowadays, exceeds 12 million cases since the beginning of the crisis more than eight months ago.

There are restrictions in almost every US state in light of the Thanksgiving holiday, which falls on the last Thursday of the month. Hope is on a possible vaccine. Pfizer Y BioNTech presented to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the request for an emergency authorization of their preparations. According Moncef Slaoui, the head of the US federal department for the development of the coronavirus cure, the doses could already start to be applied in mid-December.

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