The local authorities in Texas and Arizona, which are experiencing an increase in the death toll from the emerging corona virus, have requested the purchase of refrigerated trucks to supply the morgues capacity.
The US state of Arizona, bordering California, has recorded 2,583 deaths linked to the "Covid-19" epidemic since the start of the epidemic.
Authorities in Phoenix, Arizona's largest city, have announced that they have requested an additional 14 refrigerated locomotives that can accommodate about 294 bodies, in anticipation of an increased number of deaths due to illness.
In the state of Texas, one of the epidemics of the "Covid-19" epidemic record in the death toll on Wednesday, with 129 new deaths recorded in a single day, raising the number of deaths to 3561 cases related to the disease.
Authorities in some Texas cities such as San Antonio (central) and Corpus Christi on the Gulf of Mexico are preparing to increase the number of deaths by ordering refrigerated trucks and trailers.
And Dr. Ken David said Monday: “In the hospital there are few places to keep the bodies (...), we miss the places, and our burial office no longer has a place,” in a press conference organized by the city of San Antonio, whose hospital system suffers from « Pressure, ”says Mayor Ron Nurnberg.
"We have refrigerated trucks ready in the area in case we need them," the mayor said. In April, New York City, then the epicenter of the new Corona virus in the United States, resorted to using these trucks that allowed to store bodies that were piling up so quickly that burial bureau officials could not come and take them straight from the hospital. The United States has recorded at least 138,000 deaths related to the epidemic, according to a Johns Hopkins University census.