Covid-19: Over a year into pandemic, New York continues to store hundreds of bodies in refrigerated trucks

Hundreds of bodies of Covid-19 victims in New York are awaiting burial. At the peak of the pandemic last year, the city had started storing bodies in refrigerated trucks. Unfortunately, hundreds of them are still there.

At the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City in the United States last year, the city administration started storing bodies of the Covid-19 victims in refrigerated trucks. Unfortunately, a year later, hundreds of them are still awaiting burial. According to a local media report, a city council health committee acknowledged last week that the remains of about 750 Covid-19 victims are still being stored inside the trucks, parked along the Brooklyn waterfront.