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New York Buries Unclaimed COVID-19 victims in mass graves

Chris by Chris
April 11, 2020
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New York Buries Unclaimed COVID-19 victims in mass graves
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New York, officials confirmed on friday that Unclaimed victims of the new coronavirus are being buried in unmarked mass graves by contract laborers on an island in the state.

The New York Times reported that around 25 people are being buried on Hart Island a day since the coronavirus crisis started last month.

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Hart Island is one of America’s largest public cemeteries, with more than one million people buried there.

New York authorities have used the site for over 150 years to lay to rest unclaimed bodies, unidentified people and residents whose families could not afford a private burial.

“We will continue using the island in that fashion during this crisis and it is likely that people who have passed away from COVID who fit this description will be buried on the island in the coming days,” a spokesperson for the city government told AFP.

New York has borne the brunt of America’s pandemic, registering some 160,000 confirmed cases, more than any country outside of the United States, including Europe’s hardest-hit nations of Spain and Italy.

The state’s death toll is 7,844, around half of deaths across the US.

Approximately 1,200 burials take place every year. The dead are placed in pine coffins laid in trenches. There are no gravestones but small white markers indicate the trenches.

The site has long been run by the city’s prisons department, and inmates from the nearby Rikers Island, one of America’s most notorious jails, are typically paid to perform the burials — although not during the coronavirus pandemic.

“We are using contract labor,” the spokesperson said.

Still-born children and AIDS victims have also been buried on Hart Island over the years.

The site was off-limits to the public for decades but in recent years relatives have been allowed to visit on designated days.

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