Awkward photographs show an aerial view of freezer trucks that have been transformed into a makeshift morgue containing the contending bodies of 650 Covid-19 patients parked along the Brooklyn waterfront.
Upset images show about 50 trucks lined up in the parking lot at 39th Street Pier in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn.
When New York City was the epicenter of the virus in the United States, the city’s mortuary facilities and private funeral homes were flooded with corpses in the early days of the Covid-1P epidemic, after which emergency services were set up.
About 50 freezer trucks parked at 39th Street Pier in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn have been converted into a temporary morgue, collecting 650 unclaimed bodies of COVID-19 casualties.
City officials will continue to collect the bodies as many of them have not yet been identified or their relatives have not been contacted.
Temporary mortgages were created in April, when New York City was in the midst of its coronavirus fight, which essentially closed the metropolitan area as cases and deaths increased.
According to the City Street Journal, the bodies continue to be kept in the city, as 230 of the dead are yet to be contacted by relatives.
A spokesman for the city’s chief medical examiner’s office said it was not uncommon to keep the bodies of people who have been separated from loved ones or whose kinship information is old or outdated.
In some cases, the deceased’s relatives died on their own, city officials said.
Those whose relatives have been contacted have not collected the corpse as they cannot afford the extra cost of proper burial.
As of April 1, more than 83,000 infections were reported in New York City and only 1,941 people died. At the time, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that only 20 percent of patients on the ventilator would come from the device.
Relatives who have been contacted have not collected the corpse as they cannot afford the extra cost of proper burial.
The Wall Street Journal reports that burial aid in New York City increased from 900 900 to 7 1,700 in May – મો 7,300 less than the average ,000 9,000 price for traditional burial services.
The average cost of a cemetery is around $ 6,500, the New York State Funeral Directors Association said.
Pictured above is a medical examiner’s truck leaving the Brooklyn Waterfront on Monday
In New York, the average cost of a traditional burial can be around $ 9,000, while a typical cemetery costs about ,500 6,500, according to the New York State Funeral Directors Association.
As the epidemic claims more deaths, the city has increased burial aid to residents ranging from the usual $ 900 to 7 1,700 million – still short of meeting the average cost.
Families who are unable to afford these options will ask the city to bury their loved ones for free on Heart Island, a small part of Long Island Sound off the coast of the Bronx.
Heart Island is where the city maintains a graveyard for the poor and needy. In pre-epidemic times, claimant organizations would have been housed on one of the largest public cemeteries in the country.
Heart Island is governed by the city’s Correctional Department. His funeral has traditionally been performed by inmates at the nearby Rickers Island Prison.
During the first three months of the outbreak in March, the city reported 203,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Of those, 18,679 died and more than 54,000 were hospitalized.
In total, more than 24,000 New York City residents have died from COVID-19 related illness. More than 301,000 people in the city have tested positive for the disease.
The number of cities is the result of New York State figures, which include more than 33,800 deaths and 707,000 cases.
With the arrival of the coronavirus epidemic in March, New York City’s mortgages and cemeteries were flooded and freezer trucks loaded with extra bodies.
Drone images taken in April show corpses being buried on the heart island of New York where the Department of Corrections deals with more burials overall amid the coronavirus epidemic.
In May, as the city struggled to cope with the growing body iles throats, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would stop conducting mass funerals and efforts would be made to report kinship.
Once upon a time the staff of the city medical examiner’s office fee were not easily equipped to deal with the epidemic of the century.
The unit employs only 15 people whose job is to identify the corpse while seven others have been assigned the responsibility of contacting their relatives.
In normal, pre-epidemic times, the unit can deal with 20 deaths a day. At the height of the epidemic, it was flooded with the severe effects of about 200 new cases every day.
Delays of weeks and months due to lack of manpower led to delays in informing concerned loved ones who sought information on death certificates, sightseeing and funeral arrangements in certificates fees.
Three months after Leah-Anne Carafa was found dead in her bed, her husband’s death was reported, from whom she was separated.
Frank Joseph Carafa died of cardiovascular disease on May 6 in his Manhattan apartment. His wife, who lives in Westchester County, was only called on July 28.
Frank’s death certificate does not mention the factor that contributed to his death, COVID-19.
Prior to the outbreak, 40 calls were fielded daily in office fees. At the peak of the epidemic, he was getting 1,000 calls a day.
New York was thought to be behind the worst of the epidemic, but Governor Andrew Cuomo is now warning of serious COVID-19 case spikes during the holiday season.
In the last seven days, New York State has an average of 5,500 new confirmed cases per day. The most severe spikes have been reported in parts of Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. Cases have also risen in the western state of New York
Cuomo warned on Monday that the number of COVID hospitals could double in the next three weeks, meaning new lockdown measures will be implemented.
City officials said they are sensitive to the need for grieving New Yorkers who must now be guided by the delicate process of claiming the bodies of their loved ones.
“This is shocking,” Dina Maniotis, executive deputy commissioner of the chief medical examiner’s office, told the Wall Street Journal.
‘We are working together [next of kin] Gently we can and engage with them to make their plans.
‘A lot of them will decide they want to go to Heart Island, which is good.’
When city officials are unable to track next to a relative, they try to identify the body through fingerprinting, including fingerprints, medical or dental records, or DNA data.
Officers also comb through police records or other available documents.
The city has gradually succeeded in reducing the load of unclaimed corpses. In mid-September, it contained 698 bodies.
It is planned to continue using the truck freezer until the epidemic breaks out. It may be a while.
The governor of New York said Monday he plans to reopen the Emergency COVID-19 field hospital on Staten Island as the infection number rises, reopening the state since this first facility of its kind in the state partly tamed the epidemic during the summer.
The temporary hospital on the grounds of South Beach Psychiatric Hospital Spital treated 200 patients in the spring, while the wards of the New York City hospital were filled with critically ill and dying coronavirus patients.
Now, Cuomo said officials are concerned it may be needed again, as the virus has spread at a faster rate in boroughs than in the rest of the city.
Staten Island reported 209 new cases on Covid-19 in the last seven days – up 86 percent from two weeks ago.
In the last seven days, New York State has an average of 5,500 new confirmed cases per day.
In the last 30 days, 665 cavid-19 deaths have been reported in hospitals and nursing homes in the state – more than the combined July, August and September.
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