New York City has begun digging extra graves in its public cemetery, with pictures showing pine caskets stacked on top of each other in a large burial pit
.and whose bodies have not been claimed.Those taken to Hart Island are respectfully buried in pine caskets
The city's medical examiner will be allowed to keep the dead in storage for a fortnight before they are transferred to"potter's field" on Hart Island. The island is a one-mile strip off the Bronx which can only be accessed by boat and is often used for families who cannot pay for a funeral.Prison inmates normally help bury the bodies but during the pandemic it has been stopped to prevent the spread of the virus.More from Covid-19
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