New York funeral homes are overflowing, refrigerated trucks
park in front of hospitals to receive dead bodies, and a New York city
councilman reveals an emergency plan to make temporary burials in a city park
that Monday recorded 3,485 deaths from the coronavirus.
The images are terrible: bodies covered with white sheets or
tarps, transported on stretchers by employees in protective clothing to
refrigerated trucks, because the hospital and funeral mortuaries are
overflowing.
On Monday morning alone, in less than an hour, AFP found
that nine bodies were loaded onto trucks parked outside Wyckoff Hospital in
Brooklyn.
New York City records more than 72,000 cases of the
coronavirus, and the death toll has exceeded 500 per day a week ago - the
record 630 was reached in 24 hours on Saturday.
Several funeral companies told AFP that they were
"overwhelmed".
"Most funeral homes have limited refrigeration
capacity," said Ken Brewster, owner of a small funeral parlor business in
Queens, flooded with burial requests for covid-19 victims for a week.
"If you don't have a place, you need those
trucks," he said.
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