NYC officials give families 30 days to claim bodies of hundreds of COVID-19 victims STILL stored in refrigerated morgues on the Brooklyn waterfront before the city starts to bury them on Hart Island.
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May 07, 2021 07:34 AM EDT
(Photo : Getty Images/Stephanie Keith) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 22 : A refrigerator truck to be used as a makeshift morgue is parked at NYU Langone Hospital on May 22, 2020 in New York City. New York City is currently in its ninth week of lockdown and governmental guidelines on wearing a mask in public, social distancing and the closure of non-essential businesses are in effect.
Seven hundred fifty New Yorkers bodies are still sitting in a refrigerated morgue on the Brooklyn waterfront over one year following the detection of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Big Apple. The remains of an estimated 750 people are in long-term storage in the specially developed disaster morgue.