While United States is the hardest-hit by coronavirus, New York is the most effected state in the country with fatalities topping 18,000 and leaving the healthcare system overwhelmed.?
The state has been digging mass graves, but the situation is so grim that bodies are being left abandoned?as funeral homes struggle to deal with the dead.
According to various media reports, dozens of bodies have been discovered in trucks outside a funeral home?New York City?after?a passer-by complained about the smell.
It was not clear how long the bodies had been stored in the U-Haul trucks or whether any were COVID-19 victims. Investigators who responded to a 911 call found that the funeral home had rented four trucks to hold about 50 corpses, according to a US law enforcement official.
New York City funeral homes have struggled in the city since?late March.?Hospitals have used refrigerated tractor trailers to cart away multiple bodies at a time, sometimes loading them in public view on the sidewalk.??
The US coronavirus death toll topped 60,000 on Wednesday, according to a tally by?Johns Hopkins University.?
New York City has been at the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic and the city's funeral homes have been overwhelmed. As of Wednesday, more than 18,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the US's biggest city.