While the entire western media was busy covering the hundreds of funeral pyres burning in crematorium across India, it has come to light that around 750 bodies of Covid-19 victims continue to be stored in refrigerated trucks for over a year now in the city of New York, reports Washington Examiner.
The information of bodies of Covid-19 victims stored in refrigerated trucks came to light after officials from the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner informed the New York City council health committee last week.
The bodies have been isolated in these makeshift morgues that were created to store the bodies of deceased Covid-19 patients as the number of dead people overwhelmed New York city when the pandemic hit the US.
The Executive deputy commissioner with the medical examiner’s office Dina Maniotis said that most of the bodies that have been stored could probably end up at Hart Island, a place where the bodies of the poor and unclaimed individuals or John Doe or Jane Doe have been buried for more than a century now.
“We will continue to work with families. As soon as the family tells us they would like their loved one transferred to Hart Island, we do that very quickly,” Maniotis was quoted in a report by the Washington Post.
It seems the capacity to handle dead bodies in the medical examiner’s office is only 20 on a daily basis. However, during the height of the outbreak in New York which is one of the most populated cities in America, as many as 200 casualties were handled due to Covid-19 in March-April 2020, which overwhelmed them.
It must also be noted that the state of New York also gave false data with regards to Covid deaths in the state and Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of fudging data of nearly 15,000 Covid related deaths that took place in old age homes that were termed as normal deaths.
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