Refrigerator trucks parked outside hospital doors, overwhelmed undertakers, and talk about temporary burials in parks: America's coronavirus epicenter of New York is grappling with how to deal with the dead.
As the Big Apple's death toll from COVID-19 soared to 3,485 Monday, images of bodies covered in sheets being transported on stretchers by health workers in protective suits are a common sight outside hospitals.
The trucks are storing bodies that are accumulating too quickly for funeral directors to pick them up directly from hospitals.
On Monday morning, AFP saw nine bodies loaded into trucks outside Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn. Several undertakers interviewed by AFP said they were struggling to deal with New York state's coronavirus