Data on the number of discovered bodies and the reasons for the incident vary. The New York Times reports that the truck found “several dozen” phone At the same time, as described in the publication the official, who asked to remain anonymous, the funeral home has stored bodies in trucks after the building stopped working freezer.
the same version adheres to the New York Post, according to which the trucks were found from 40 to 60 telephone the Newspaper also reported, citing sources, that the Bureau was forced to start putting in body is not equipped with refrigerated trucks, because they didn’t arrive the staff of the crematorium.
However, the TV channel NBC, citing police reports that it was discovered exactly 50 bodies in four trucks loaded with ice. And used them as storage, mainly because the building just out of place.
it is unknown how many of the found people died from the coronavirus.
Recall that new York is in the center of the epidemic COVID-19 in the United States. Alone in this city, the number of cases is almost 165 thousand people, 18 076 infected died.