When Corona hit New York hard in the spring, the city had to set up mobile morgues for the many dead. Freezer trucks in which the bodies were stored.
It should only be temporary. But six months later, the gruesome trailers are still in Brooklyn. It contains 650 corona deaths for whom no grave has yet been found.
As the “Wall Street Journal“Reported, no relatives have been found of around 230 deceased. According to this, many died alone, unnoticed by their families, with whom they no longer had contact. Relatives data who found helpers are often incorrect and out of date, the newspaper wrote.
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The pandemic has killed more than 24,200 people in New York City alone. Hundreds of people died every day in AprilPhoto: ANGELA WEISS / AFP
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Other families know of their dead – but, according to authorities, have no money to have them properly buried.
The city has increased the funeral allowance considerably, almost doubling it to the equivalent of 1,400 euros in May. But even a normal cremation costs almost four times as much.
Everyone is entitled to a free burial in a mass grave on Hart Island. But many families hesitate to use such a funeral.
For the relatives, the situation is traumatic, the “Wall Street Journal” quotes Dina Maniotis from the office of New York’s chief coroner. “We work with them and carefully try to convince them to sort things out.” In the end, many would decide to have the dead buried in a mass grave on Hart Island.
But the process takes time. From mid-September to mid-November, only about 50 corpses from the refrigerated trucks were properly buried.
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