New York Inters Bodies In Mass Burials On Island Amid Coronavirus Crisis

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As NYC’s 5,000-plus coronavirus death toll overwhelms local morgues, workers on Hart Island—a one-mile outpost off the Bronx that housed the dead during the HIV/AIDs crisis—buried approximately 40 caskets on Thursday, after a new state policy

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Island, a former prison and Nike missile silo site which is now the largest public burial ground in the United States, on October 25, 2019 in New York City.

Earlier this week, Mayor Bill de Blasio told local outlet NY1 that if bodies were temporarily interred on Hart Island, the dead would be buried individually so families could later collect the remains. Typically, the gravesite oversees the interment of 25 bodies once per week—now, the frequency of burials has been increased five-fold, according to aThe island may also be used as an auxiliary site to hold bodies in the event that the number of bodies exceeds the capacity of hospitals, morgues and refrigerated trucks, which can currently accommodate approximately 5,000 bodies, according to

 

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Digging ur own ditch, sir

You dropped this. 'Under a new policy outlined on the Office of the Chief Medical Officer’s website, **unclaimed bodies** can be temporarily interred on Hart Island'

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