In Arizona and Texas, health authorities used refrigerated trucks because of the recent high death toll from the emerging Corona virus, in a scene that recalled what happened in New York at the height of the pandemic nearly four months ago, according to a report by the CBS website.
It is worth noting that the two states are among the regions that have witnessed a major jump in the newly recorded cases of the disease in the United States.
The station report quoted a local health official as saying that San Antonio city hospitals in Texas had used these coolers because of the overcrowding of their morgues.
The city's mayor, Ron Nirnberg, also confirmed this, indicating that only 10 percent of hospital beds, Pixar County, are located and available for use, knowing that the province has registered 19,600 cases so far.
Another official, in the province of Noises, also confirmed ordering refrigerated trucks to transport the dead.
It is worth noting that, Texas has recorded about 275 thousand cases and 3322 deaths so far.
In Arizona, which has witnessed about 131,000 cases and 2,400 deaths since the start of the epidemic, Ministry of Health figures indicate that the occupancy rate of intensive care beds for adults reached 90 percent, compared to 62 percent three months ago.
The medical examiner's office, in Maricopa County, said contracts with refrigerated trucks were being concluded.
It is noteworthy that, last March, hospitals and funerals in New York relied on hundreds of refrigerated trucks throughout the city to deal with the issue of overcrowding.
For the first time, city hospitals put fixed refrigerated trucks in front of their buildings to be ready daily to transport the bodies.