The victims of Covid-19 in New York have been buried in mass graves as the city struggles to cope with the coronavirus. Shocking images taken from a drone show workers using ladders to climb into a huge pit on Hart Island, off the Bronx.
The area has been used for mass burials for those who have no next-of-kin, or whose families can't afford funerals, for the past 150 years.
Typically, some 25 bodies are interred each week by low-paid jail inmates working on the island, which is accessible only by boat. Do you have a coronavirus story?
Email [email protected] That number began increasing in March as the new coronavirus spread rapidly, making New York the epicentre of the global pandemic.