Coronavirus: Victims buried in mass grave on New York Island - 20 Minutes
It has long been nicknamed "the island of the dead". Located in the northeast of the Bronx, Hart Island has been used as a New York mass grave since 1869. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, dozens of bodies of Covid-19 victims not claimed by relatives have been buried on the Isle.
"We will continue to use the island for this purpose during the crisis and it is likely that people who died as a result of Covid-19 in one of these cases will be buried there in the coming days," said A spokesperson for New York City told AFP.
One million dead buried on the island
Usually burials, taken from the famous nearby Rikers Island prison, provide burials. But given the risk of contamination and concerns about the spread of the virus in detention, the task is currently being carried out by employees of a subcontractor, said a spokesman for New York City.
Twenty-four people are buried each day today, against an average of 25 per week before the pandemic, according to a spokesman for the city's prison services, which manage the place. In more than a hundred years, more than a million people unidentified, unclaimed or for whom relatives could not pay a funeral have been buried on the island.
New York State remains the most affected in the United States, with 777 new deaths in the past 24 hours and 7,844 deaths in total since the arrival of the pandemic in the region.
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