NEW YORK - Seventeen bodies were reportedly discovered jammed into a nursing home morgue in Andover, New Jersey during the coronavirus pandemic.
Police were tipped off to the bodies being improperly stored at the Andover Subacute and Rehabilitation Center, reported the New York Times.
The bodies were stored in the morgue that was intended for four bodies. “They were just overwhelmed by the number of people who were expiring,” Andover Police Chief Eric Danielson told the Times.
The bodies were found on Easter Sunday and the following Monday. In Paramus, at least 24 people have died at the New Jersey Veterans Home and at least 75 residents have tested positive for the virus.