Workers wearing hazmat suits have been spotted burying caskets in a mass grave on New York's Hart Island as the number of burials quadruples amid the coronavirus pandemic and the city's death roll rises to more than 4,200.

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The caskets were stacked three on top of each other in the mass grave as inmates used a digger to help transport the bodies.

Normally, about 25 bodies bodies are buried each Thursday on Hart Island.

That number increased to 72 since the end of March and now to about 100 when coronavirus fatalities increased drastically in the city, according to the Department of Corrections.

Those currently buried on Hart Island include people who haven't been identified, unclaimed bodies and people whose families could not afford burial costs.


Workers wearing hazmat suits and other protective gear were spotted burying caskets in a mass grave on New York's Hart Island on Thursday.

The refrigerated truck that was brought onto the island is the same as those currently parked outside hospitals across Manhattan as part of makeshift morgues set up to deal with the number of people dying from the coronavirus outbreak.





THE GRISLY HISTORY OF HART ISLAND: THE FINAL RESTING PLACE FOR OVER ONE MILLION BODIES


Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, has a grisly history and started being used as a cemetery during the civil war in 1868 and there are now more than a million bodies buried there.

Since then it has been used as a women's psychiatric institution, a tuberculosis sanatorium, a potter's field burial site and storage for Cold War anti-aircraft missiles.

After its first use as a cemetery in 1868, the island started to be used as a potter's field for unmarked graves and accounts from the time describe bodies piling up on the island after being transported from hospitals in the city.

By 1958, burials there exceeded 500,000 and it has been used to house the bodies of victims of the 1870 yellow fever epidemic and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak.

During the Spanish Flu, when more than 500,000 Americans died, thousands were buried at Hart Island as city burial sites were overwhelmed.


In more recent times, thousands of unclaimed AIDs victims have been buried on the island.

The first were buried in 1985 away from other graves, in the belief that AIDs could infect dead bodies.

In one 200-foot trench the remains of 8,904 babies were buried between 1988 and 1999

It returned to being used as a common grave in the 1980s and is still used to bury unknown or unclaimed people with bodies from across New York taken to the site twice a week and laid to rest by inmates at Rikers Island.

Due to a New York State law from the 1850s and last amended in 2007, a dead person's next of kin on have 48 hours after death to claim a body for burial.

If the body is unclaimed it becomes legally available as a medical cadavar to be used for training at medical schools or mortuary classes.

The island, which can only be accessed by ferryboat, was sold to the city in 1868 and became a final resting place for unclaimed bodies and those used by medical schools.

This is so tragic. Obviously their families can't even be present to bid them farewell. COVID-19 is really dealing with Newyork/America.

God help us. Nigeria won't get to this level.

Dear God, remember you sent your only begotten son (Jesus Christ) to the world to pay the price of this death for us.

Lord, in your tender mercies forgive us all our shortcomings and heal the world with the blood of Jesus Christ that sheds on the cross of Calvary in Jesus name, Amen!

Chai... is well...


Farewell pals

Oluwa has the final say!

Omo this is really sad! Why not just cremate them other than bury them like this
In another 300 years to come some archaeologists will discover this place and a lot of theories will arise from different angles!!

May God rest their souls!
We move

A lot of people, even some of the exposed Nigerians don't care this issue is critical. Let's just hope it doesn't get worst to this level.

This is so sad!!! Hope all this dead people aren't immigrants!

Some bodies are claimed by families.


Families in Brooklyn, a pallbearer and medical staff placed the body of a deceased family member into a hearse at a funeral at Jurek-Park Slope Funeral Home during the coronavirus outbreak Thursday.

People dying like flies everyday.
It's a population check mechanism, the Asians and Europeans knows what they are doing.

That whole area will be seriously contaminated

May their soul rest in rest.

In the next 1000 years, archeologist will be like "Mass grave discovered in Hart Island"

Really sad

May God Almighty help us and cleanse our land from Corona virus.

Covik 1-9 is real and it is not caused by 5G.

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"The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorent."
-- Stifyn Emrys

When are we going to have our freedom again??

Dey should hv burn dem

It's well. Now it seems the cold weather over there also plays a role in this corona pandemic o.


God will continue to help us down here, that's if we too play our part by helping ourselves...

That grave isnt deep enough. I fear another outbreak may happen.

God come to the aid of the world, somebody says New York is full of Evil acts that is why its most affected, I don't know if there is any correlation with that?

This is disheartening. God please heal the world.

So sad. Lord, deliver us from this evil. Mankind is overwhelmed. Amen.

I just pray the USA does not respond with war with China...

If this shit started in USA, a lot of conspiracy theory would have been flying around now..

Scary...