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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.
NYC still storing COVID-19 victims in refrigerated trucks
By The Associated PressUpdated May 7, 2021, 1:24 p.m.
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Refrigerated trucks were used as a makeshift morgue in New York on March 28, 2020.GREGG VIGLIOTTI/NYT
NEW YORK (AP) â New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.
The cityâs medical examinerâs office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places.
Print article NEW YORK New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic. The city’s medical examiner’s office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places. Dina Maniotis, a deputy commissioner with the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, told a city council committee on Wednesday that many of the bodies held at the 39th Street Pier could end up buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island.
Hundreds of NYC COVID-19 victims still stored in refrigerated trucks
Updated May 07, 1:45 PM;
Posted May 07, 1:45 PM
Refrigerated trucks make a makeshift morgue outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/TNS) TNSTNS
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NEW YORK (AP) New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.
The city’s medical examiner’s office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places.
NYC still using refrigerated trucks for COVID victims
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A refrigerated truck is seen outside of a Lenox Hill Hospital facility in the West Village of Manhattan on Friday March 27, 2020. (Jose Salvador/FOX5NY)
NEW YORK - New York City is still using refrigerated trucks to store bodies of coronavirus victims, more than a year after they were first set up as temporary morgues as deaths surged at at the height of the pandemic.
The city’s medical examiner’s office said Friday that 750 bodies are being kept in long-term storage in refrigerated trailers at a Brooklyn pier while family members sort out plans for their final resting places.