About 20 people are buried here every day. Nicknamed the Island of the Dead, Hart Island, north of Manhattan, has since the 19th century welcomed the bodies of those no one wants: the homeless or the destitute who cannot afford funerals. The rate of burials is frantic in this state of New York, epicenter of the pandemic with its 7,000 dead. Thursday April 9, still nearly 800 deaths were counted. A record. To relieve the overloaded mortuaries, refrigerated trucks receive the remains before the funeral directors come to recover them.
In this setting of desperation, the good news: the number of hospitalizations and admissions in intensive care has never been so low, in particular thanks to the confinement, affirms the governor Andrew Cuomo. The funeral directors are so outdated that the authorities in New York are considering carrying out temporary burials in parks. With more than 430,000 contaminations, the world’s leading power has the largest number of cases of Covid-19 in the world, and 16,000 deaths, on Friday April 10. In front of the Mount Sinai hospital in New York, every day at 7 p.m., caregivers are entitled to the homage of New Yorkers. On the sidewalk, an artist has chalked his eternal gratitude to them.
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