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the burials in a common grave in New York, the city that has more cases of covid-19 of any country in the world

April 10, 2020

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Hart Island has been used historically as a cemetery, mass.

The health crisis of the coronavirus struck with the greater virulence to the united States, and in particular to New York.

The drama who lives the city of the Big Apple, was staged on Thursday with the images of coffins being buried in a common grave.

New York, total, sum 159.937 infected and 7,000 killed.

This figure exceeds the number of hiv infections total in Spain (157.000), and Italy (the 143,000), two countries that until recently were the most affected in the world.

China, the country which emerged from the pandemic, has reported about 82.000 cases.

United States it is the country hardest hit by the covid-19disease caused by the pathogen, taking nearly a third (462.000 infected) of the global total (1.6 million).

Common grave

The images of the mass grave were taken by a drone on Hart Island, a place that has been used for 150 years as a cemetery mass for the dead without family or members of a family that can’t afford to pay for a funeral.

It is likely that many of the coffins containing victims of coronavirus, but it is not clear if the subjects were people who complied with the requirements described.

The city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, acknowledged that during the crisis could occur “graves temporary”.

The burials in this area have skyrocketed because of the pandemic. Before they organized a day to the week and now five, according to data from the penal institutions of New York.

Lthe work of burial is typically executed by the prisoners of Rikers Islandthe main prison complex of the city, but the increase in work has required the employment of contractors.

The city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, said early this week that the “graves temporary” could be necessary until the crisis has passed.

“Historically, the place that we have used for that is Hart Island,” said de Blasio.

Lowering estimates

Last Wednesday, 799 people were killed by the coronavirus in the state of New York, a record of the city for the third day in a row.

For the third consecutive day, New York has registered a record number of deaths in a day.

However, the state’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, noted that the number of patients with covid-19 in the hospital he had dropped for the second day with 200 new hospital admissions.

Cuomo said that social distancing was working. He described the outbreak as “an explosion of silently spreading in the society with the same randomness and evil in the 11-S“the day of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

This Thursday emerged another glimmer of hope when the reduction in the official projections of deaths around the country.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the special team against the coronavirus of the White House, told the news network NBC that the estimated number of americans who die by covid-19 “is around 60,000”.

At the end of march, the forecast of Fauci stood “between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths.”

According to government data, the projection of 60,000 deaths would correspond with the approximate number of deaths by influenza in EE.USA between October 2019 and march 2020.

However, the vice president, Mike Penze insisted Thursday that the coronavirus was three times more contagious than the virus that causes the flu.

Previously, the White House had handled ladies that were in 2.2 million deaths from coronavirus if he did not take any measure to stop its spread.

Business unemployed

Orders of confinement have led to the closure of non core business in 42 states, paralyzing dramatically the u.s. economy, the first in the world.

The orders of quarantine have left the streets empty and the businesses standing in cities like Chicago.

The official statistics collected 16,8 million unemployed in the past three weeks.

Chicago, on the other hand, imposed a curfew on the sale of liquor from 9:00 pm to stop the breach persistent of the prohibition of mass gatherings.

This measure, which will extend until April 30, occurs in a context in which the black inhabitants of Chicago account for half of all cases for coronavirus in the state of Illinois and more than 70% of deaths, despite the fact that they constitute 30% of the population.

The data of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Wisconsin and New York reflect the same racial disparities in the infections by coronaviruses.