New York City officials have hired contract labourers to bury the dead on Hart Island as the city's daily death toll from the coronavirus epidemic reaches a grim new record
As New York deals with a mounting coronavirus death toll and dwindling morgue space, the city has shortened the length of time it will hold unclaimed remains before they are buried in its public cemetery on Hart Island.
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