<p><a href="/tags/coronavirus_outbreak/" rel="tag">#Coronavirus_Outbreak</a>: <a href="/tags/new_york/" rel="tag">#New_York</a> buries COVID-19 <a href="/tags/dead/" rel="tag">#dead</a> in <a href="/tags/mass_grave/" rel="tag">#mass_grave</a> on <a href="/tags/hart_island/" rel="tag">#Hart_Island</a> | New York City officials have contracted labourers to bury those who died from COVID-19 in its potter's field on Hart Island as the death toll from the coronavirus reached grim new records | God Bless America.</p><p>The city has used the island since the 19th century to bury New Yorkers with <a href="/tags/no_known/" rel="tag">#no_known</a> next of kin or those whose family are <a href="/tags/unable/" rel="tag">#unable</a> to <a href="/tags/arrange_a_funeral/" rel="tag">#arrange_a_funeral</a>.<br>HART<br>Normally, some 25 bodies are interred each week, but since the coronavirus began to spread rapidly the number has increased. Now, about 24 <a href="/tags/bodies/" rel="tag">#bodies</a> are being <a href="/tags/buried_daily/" rel="tag">#buried_daily</a>, <a href="/tags/five_days/" rel="tag">#five_days</a> a <a href="/tags/week/" rel="tag">#week</a>, according to a spokesperson for the <a href="/tags/department_of_corrections/" rel="tag">#Department_of_Corrections</a>, which oversees the burials.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/QAYZ2z3NmBE" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtu.be/QAYZ2z3NmBE</a></p>
