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He rented the vehicles because there was no more room in his own home due to the many deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the company owner in the Brooklyn neighborhood (local time) told The New York Times on Thursday.
Also, her cold room had failed and the demand for rental of refrigerated trucks was so great that she was no longer getting enough. “I ran out of space. The corpses come out to our ears.”
Mayor: “Absolutely unacceptable”
Local residents had alerted police to the rotting smell of the trucks. The bodies were then transferred to a refrigerated truck. The situation is “appalling” and “absolutely unacceptable,” said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio. “I have no idea how a funeral home can do this.”
The New York metropolis is currently the epicenter of the crisis in the United States with more than 14,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths. However, the peak of the outbreak appears to have been exceeded. On Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced 289 new deaths across New York State, in which the city of the same name is located, less than in about four weeks. The number of newly infected and hospitalized patients has also been relatively stable for days.
The subway is cleaned every night.
The hospital ship “USNS Comfort”, which was sent to New York to relieve hospitals, was able to leave the metropolis port again on Thursday (local time). To avoid further broadcasts, the New York subway should take a multi-hour cleanup break each night for the first time in its history since next week. All schools in New York State must remain closed until the end of the school year, Cuomo said Friday.
Thousands of people at the funeral.
There was still a stir around the crowds of people in the Orthodox-Jewish neighborhoods of the metropolis. Mayor de Blasio apologized after harshly criticizing an Orthodox Jewish funeral attended by a large number of people.
De Blasio had described the funeral of a prominent rabbi, which drew thousands of mourners in the middle of the week, as “absolutely unacceptable.” Several representatives of Jewish associations later criticized the mayor for emphasizing the incident and generalizing “the Jewish community” as responsible. On Friday night, the police had to divide the crowds of people in the Orthodox and Jewish neighborhoods again.
