As Death Toll Climbs, New York City Hires Labourers To Bury Coronavirus Victims On Hart Island

With the rising death toll in New York City in last few days, officials there have hired contract labourers to bury the dead on Hart Island's potter’s field. New York City has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 19th century. Here's a photo story:

Anuj TiwariUpdated: Apr 10, 2020, 15:45 IST

With the rising death toll in New York City in last few days, officials there have hired contract labourers to bury the dead on Hart Island's potter’s field. New York City has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 19th century. Here's a photo story:

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A satellite image shows New York's Hart Island, while officials there have hired contract labourers to bury coronavirus victims on the island's potter's field.

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The New York City has used Hart Island to bury New Yorkers with no known next of kin or whose family are unable to arrange a funeral since the 19th century.

There are about two dozen bodies a day, five days a week buried on the island, said Jason Kersten, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, which oversees the burials.

Drone picture show caskets in a trench on New York's Hart Island.

Before burial, the dead are wrapped in body bags and placed inside pine caskets. The deceased’s name is scrawled in large letters on each casket, which helps should a body need to be disinterred later.

Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment transport the body of a deceased patient from a refrigerated truck for burial.

A motorman drives a ferry carrying a refrigerated truck full of bodies to Hart Island for burial.

Workers arrive on a ferry after working on Hart Island.

Workers are seen on Hart Island, the former location of a prison and hospital that is a potter's field burial site of as many as one million people and which New York City is considering serving as a site for temporary interment of victims of the coronavirus disease.

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As Death Toll Climbs, New York City Hires Labourers To Bury Coronavirus Victims On Hart Island

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