New drone video shows a trench being dug at NYC's public cemetery on Hart Island to help handle the increased influx of unclaimed bodies due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The medical examiner's office will only keep bodies for 14 days before they are sent to be buried in the city’s potter’s field on Hart Island in the Bronx.
Aerial images taken Thursday by The Associated Press captured workers digging graves on the island. About 40 caskets were lined up for burial on the island on Thursday, and two fresh trenches have been dug in recent days. Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island, in the Bronx, N.Y., on April 9, 2020.The island may also be used for temporary interments should deaths surge past the city's morgue capacity. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner can store about 800 to 900 bodies, while about 4,000 can be stored in refrigerated trucks dispatched to city hospitals.
Mayor Bill de Blasio told TV station NY1 earlier this week that under such a contingency plan, bodies of COVID-19 victims would be buried individually — not in mass graves — so families could later reclaim them.Elisha Fieldstadt is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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