China News Service, April 11th, comprehensive US media news on the 11th, New York City officials said that the death toll caused by the new crown epidemic continued to increase, and the funeral industry was overwhelmed. The city plans to die from the body of the new crown without being recovered , Buried on Hart Island.
Hart Island is one of the largest cemeteries in the United States. New York authorities have used it as a cemetery for more than 150 years. It is buried for the dead who have not been recovered, whose identity cannot be confirmed, and whose family members cannot afford the funeral.
Data Map: Hart Island, an uninhabited island in eastern New York, USA. Since the 19th century, the island has buried dead babies, homeless people, poor people and countless unnamed corpses with a population of up to 1 million.
Hart Island has buried more than 1 million people, and in recent years there are still about 1,000 bodies buried there every year. The deceased was placed in a pine coffin and buried in a trench without a tombstone on it, only a small white mark.
Goldstein, a spokesman for New York Mayor Bai Sihao, said on the 9th that in the next few days, it is likely that some of the dead bodies of the new crown virus will be sent to Hart Island for burial.
The New York Times reported that under normal circumstances, New York City has an average of 150 deaths per day, and the outbreak of the New Crown epidemic doubled this number at least. Funeral homes, crematoriums, cemeteries and mortuaries are already overwhelmed.
Hart Island is managed by the New York Department of Corrections. Normally, city officials will park their bodies in the mortuary for several months before sending the body to Hart Island to allow time to find relatives of the deceased. However, Goldstein said that the dead of the new crown virus whose remains were not claimed within two weeks would be sent to Hart Island for burial.
Data Map: Hart Island is one of the largest cemeteries in the United States, but it is also the least populated cemetery.
The Department of Corrections stated that it used to hire prisoners from nearby Rikers Island Prison to bury the coffin, but during the outbreak, it has changed to hire another contractor.
It is reported that usually 25 people are buried here every week, but since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, about 25 people are buried every day on Hart Island. However, it is unclear whether these people who have been buried include the dead of new coronary pneumonia, or those who died before the outbreak. Due to the limited space in the morgue, the body was transported here.
Recently, some media exposed a group of Hart Island drone pictures, showing that a large number of coffins were placed in the trenches on the island. On the 10th, Mayor Bai Sihao of New York denied concerns about "mass burial" and said, "Everything is personal and every body will be treated with dignity."
According to the latest statistics from Hopkins University in the United States, as of 12:59 on April 11, Beijing time, more than 94,000 people in New York City have been diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia, of which 5,820 people have died.