NEW YORK, may 24. /TASS/ Publication dedicated to the fact that in USA the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the near future should reach 100 thousand
the American newspaper the New York Times published on the front page of the Sunday issue of the thousand names of the dead in the USA due infected with coronavirus, and short obituaries.
“Sunday on the front page of The New York Times is articles, pictures or graphics, just a list. Long sad list of people whose lives were claimed by the pandemic coronavirus”, — said the representatives of the editorial office on Saturday. They explained that the publication is timed to the fact that in the USA the number of deaths from a disease caused by a virus in the near future should reach 100 thousand
The front page of The New York Times for May 24, 2020.
the magazine’s Staff examined hundreds of Newspapers that were published in different cities of the USA. They made a list from thousands of names of those people on death which due virus reported edition. The journalists were taken from obituaries printed in one phrase, “depicting the uniqueness of each of life lost”, and showed at what age and in what city the person died.
Speaking about the purpose for which the list is published, one of the editors of The New York Times, mark Lacey said:
design Director in The New York Times Tom Bodkin said that in the last 40 years has never been the case when on the front page of The New York Times, in addition to the text had not been posted to any image.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, which conducts calculations on the basis of information Federal and local authorities in the United States recorded more than 1.6 million cases of infection with mers had died over 97 thousand people.
on Monday the country celebrates memorial Day. Traditionally on this day, Americans pay tribute to fellow citizens who fell in the fields all wars ever fought by the United States.
